Bums In The Attic

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Bums in the attic. Bums in the attic esperanza wants a nice suburban house with a garden like the ones where her father works. 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. Esperanza has stopped going with her family. Her papa teases her for being stuck up and thinking herself too old to go on such family outings.

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. 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.

On the weekends the family visits these houses and dreams about moving there. The house on mango street chapter 34 bums in the attic. Esperanza really thinks that the people who live in those houses are stuck up and don t have to worry about anything but garbage. Esperanza resolves to have a nice house someday but to never forget where she came from.