The House on Mango Street Chapter 12 Summary

Those Who Don't

• The narrator makes fun of people who think she and her neighbors are dangerous.
• She says that she and her friends aren't afraid of the tough-looking guys in the neighborhood – she knows them all by name.
• The narrator feels safe in her neighborhood, in which everyone is "brown." But when she and her neighbors venture into another neighborhood of a different color, they get scared too.