we didnt always live on mango street before that we lived on lommis on the third floor
by the time we moved to mango street we were 6 -Mama, Papa, Carlos, Kiki, my sister nenny and me
mango street
the housee on mango is ours and we dont have to pay rent to anybody, or share the yard with the people downstairs
they alwyas told us that one day we would move into a house, a real house that would be ours for always so we wouldnt have to have to move each year and our house would have running water and pipes that worked and inside it would have real steps not halway steps but the steps inside like the houses on tv and wed have a basement and at least 3 washrooms so when we took a bath we didnt have to tell every body our house would be white with trees around it with a big yardt
once when we were living onloomis a nun from my school passed by and saw me playing out front the laundret mat downstairs had been boarded up beacause it had been robbed 2 days before and the owner had painted on the wood yes were open so as not to lose busniess where do you, live she asked there i pointed up to the third floor you live there she asked
i knew then i had to have a house a real house one i could point to but this isnt it the house on mango street isnt