The House on Mango Street Innocence Quotes Page 2
Citations follow this format: (Chapter.Paragraph)
| Quote #4 One day you wake up and they are there. Ready and waiting like a new Buick with the keys in the ignition. Ready to take you where? (20.2) |
Esperanza seems a bit bewildered by the idea that such a huge transformation as getting hips could occur to her overnight.
| Quote #5 What I'm saying is who here is ready? You gotta be able to know what to do with hips when you get them, I say making it up as I go. You gotta know how to walk with hips, practice you know – like if half of you wanted to go one way and the other half the other. (20.10) |
Esperanza and her friends don't have hips yet, but they're starting to express interest in the changes they know will happen to their bodies.
| Quote #6 Nenny, I say, but she doesn't hear me. She is too many light-years away. She is in a world we don't belong to anymore. (20.34) |
Nenny's complete lack of interest in the discussion about hips makes her seem much younger than the other girls – and shows us just how much the other girls are maturing.
