The House on Mango Street

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   renelane Teacher
   High School - 11th Grade

   Alicia has to take care of her family, including her father, while trying to go to school. She is afraid of the mice, and the mice are really symbols of her economic level. Mice are low on the food chain and the vermin of society , just as Alicia and her family. Alicia does not want to be stuck in the life she has now, feeling small and powerless.

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   Posted by renelane on Friday November 9, 2007 at 10:02 AM
   
   

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   prepxmeister Student
   High School - 11th Grade

   Well you read in the chapter that she has taken on her mothers roles because she has died, but her father has made her take on more rolls then you would anticipate. Four-legged fur is symbolic which represents her father. Her father is having rapping Alicia in the bathroom. When Alicia talks to her father about this he merelly says  "close your eyes and they'll go away, or You're just imagining."

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   Posted by prepxmeister on Friday February 29, 2008 at 7:59 PM
   
   

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