englihs midterm

• Cathy Queen of Cats claims to be the great great grand cousin of the queen of France.
• Cathy has several cats.
• Cathy explains that the neighborhood is getting bad, so she moves next Tuesday.
• Cathy explains how they move away each time people like Esperanza (racism) keep moving in.
• Cathy gives gossip on all the neighbors.
• Esperanza wishes to give herself a new name that suits her better, like “Zeze the X”.
• Magdelena is Nenny’s “ugly” school name.
• Esperanza’s great grandmother never forgave her husband and spent the rest of her life trapped at a window.
• Esperanza’s great grandfather refused to marry anyone until he threw a sack over Esperanza’s great grandmother’s head and carried her off.
• Rachel explains to Esperanza that if she gives five dollars, she will be her friend forever– Cathy says to not talk to them.
• They want five dollars for a bicycle from Tito.
• Cathy insults them, they are a broom she says.
• Esperanza still likes them, they look crooked, becoming their friend.
• Nenny and Esperanza do not look like sisters right away.
• Their laughter is loud
• Nenny and Esperanza both think the same too.
• Anyone can tell that Lucy and Rachel is related.
• Meme Ortiz moved into Cathy’s house after she moved.
• Meme’s real name is juan.
• Meme has a dog, a sheepdog with grey eyes– very big like a human in the suit.
• Meme and his dog are both very clumsy.
• People used meme’s backyard as the first annual tarzan contest, he won and broke both arms.
• Louie is the oldest in a family full of little sisters, he has two cousins.
• One of them is a girl and has to stay with louie’s family.
• Aunt Lupe, Guadalupe was pretty and had swimmer’s elgs, and then she had a disease making her feel and look weak.
• Esperanza was born on an evil day.
• Esperanza’s grandfather died early one morning, her father told her first, since she was the oldest she would have to tell the rest of her siblings and why they could not play.
• Esperanza believes diseases pick people blindly.
• Esperanza lied about her age to get the job.
• An older man at her job asked for a kiss on his birthday, Esperanza refused and the man grabbed her face with both hands and kissed her hard on the mouth not letting go.
• The mother’s feet were plump and polite.
• Esperanza’s mother was embarrassed at the baptism party because Esperanza wore her old shoes.
• Esperanza ate in the washroom stalls in her job.
• Rachel had the one red pair of shoes.
• Esperanza’s father died, and her mother remarried, her new husband was a man named Geraldo, who worked in a restaurant, wearing green pants and a saturday shirt.
• Geraldo got into a hit and run, and Marin keeps repeating the story to different people.
• Geraldo did not speak English, his home was in another country, and he went north.
• Esperanza’s father found a job in a photo finisher, and Esperanza became a photo finisher.
• Esperanza’s mother threw the shoes away after three days, no one complained.
• There was no evil in Aunt Lupe’s birth.