Bums In The Attic

Her papa teases her for being stuck up and thinking herself too old to go on such family outings.

Bums in the attic.

The house on mango street chapter 34 bums in the attic. On the weekends the family visits these houses and dreams about moving there. When her family goes to the hills on sundays esperanza never wants to go. Esperanza has stopped going with her family.

She too would like to live in one of those houses but she is tired of looking at what she cannot have. The poor staying in esperanza s attic will not be rats as her dinner guests mistake them for but bums yet that word has no derogatory connotations readers sense for esperanza. When bums pass by she will invite them in and let them stay in her attic because she knows what it s like to not have a house. It is a simple acknowledgment that esperanza s attic guests as opposed to her dinner table guests one could surmise are poor and yet deserve acceptance and welcome.

Bums in the attic study guide by ilonavion includes 19 questions covering vocabulary terms and more. Esperanza really thinks that the people who live in those houses are stuck up and don t have to worry about anything but garbage. Her guests will think rats are squeaking in the attic but esperanza will happily tell them it s bums. However there are a fair amount of unnamed characters such as the bums in the attic and the friends of hers that ask about them.