The House on Mango Street Playlist
Song #1: Story
“Hips”
Quote from the book: “Skip, skip, snake in your hips, wiggle around, and break you hips." Pg.51
The main theme of the story “Hips” is that your hips could be your biggest body part that some people hips stick out and are to wide.
“Hips Don’t Lie” by Shakira
Quote from the song: “All the attraction, the tension, don’t you see baby this is perfection?"
“Hips” by Shakira is about how all the attraction she gets is because of her hips. And she doesn’t care what people think because she feels good about her hips.
I picked this song because both the song and the story have something to do with hips and about how they love their hips and doesn’t care what nobody thinks.
Song #2: Character
Esperanza –“Hairs”
Quote from the book: Everybody in our family has different hair. My Papa’s hair is like a broom, all up in the air. And me, my hair is lazy.
Esperanza is a girl who is very different from her family when it comes down to their hair. She explains how her family hair is crazy, or just right.
“I am Not My Hair” by
Quote from the song: “ I am not my hair, I am not my skin, I am not your expectations.”
“I am Not My Hair” is about a girl who wears different types of hairstyles and most people think other things about her. But what she is trying to say in this song is that just because she wears her hair a certain way doesn’t means she acts a certain way. Like if her hair was crazy and all over the place, hat doesn’t mean he is crazy and all over the place.
I picked this song because in the story she tells how her family has different hairstyles and how they may be wild, but they are not their hair.
Song #3: Book Theme
Book Theme: Never Say You Don’t Like Something You Never Tried Out
Quote from the book: “And so she trudged up the wooden stairs, her sad brown shoes taking her to the house she never liked." Pg.109
One of the major themes in this book is not to judge people before you know them. To not judge things before you do them. To try things and then see if you like it because you never know until you try it. In the story Esperanza doesn’t like her house when she sees it but doesn’t know how she would like it in the meantime.
Book Song: “A House is Not a Home” by Luther Vandross
Quote from the song: “A house is not a home when there is no one there.”
“A House is Not a Home.” By Luther Vandross is about how a house is not a home but how would you know this if you never tried it or if no ones in the house.
I picked this song because it is similar in different ways. It is different because in the song he talks about how a house is not is home, but in my opinion I think it is similar because you don’t know if a house is not a home if you never lived in it.
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