Archetypes
Esperanza- The Innocent
Motto: In actual stories, people don't have arbitrary mottoes.
Core Desire: To be her own person
Goal: To escape Mango Street
Greatest Fear: Losing her father
Strategy: She writes to escape her neighborhood
Weakness: Naive
Talent: creating metaphors inside her head, getting into trouble, and writing and dancing apparently.
Esperanza displays staggering naivete, or innocence. Therefore she is the Innocent
Motto: In actual stories, people don't have arbitrary mottoes.
Core Desire: To be her own person
Goal: To escape Mango Street
Greatest Fear: Losing her father
Strategy: She writes to escape her neighborhood
Weakness: Naive
Talent: creating metaphors inside her head, getting into trouble, and writing and dancing apparently.
Esperanza displays staggering naivete, or innocence. Therefore she is the Innocent
The Three Sisters- The Sages
Motto: Almost no characters have mottoes, because good characters are like people, and how many people do you know who have a motto, and follow said motto?
Core Desire: I have no idea, but they fit the archetype.
Goal: To teach the ignorant the truth
Biggest fear: Not mentioned.
Strategy: Randomly showing up at funerals to talk to complete strangers
Weakness: They're three old ladies, with the weakness of body that always comes with age.
Talent: Passing their wisdom on to others.
Three old women, whose only purpose in the story is to advise the protagonist? That seems pretty Sage-like to me. Also, three old ladies? Three old wise women would be more appropriate.
Motto: Almost no characters have mottoes, because good characters are like people, and how many people do you know who have a motto, and follow said motto?
Core Desire: I have no idea, but they fit the archetype.
Goal: To teach the ignorant the truth
Biggest fear: Not mentioned.
Strategy: Randomly showing up at funerals to talk to complete strangers
Weakness: They're three old ladies, with the weakness of body that always comes with age.
Talent: Passing their wisdom on to others.
Three old women, whose only purpose in the story is to advise the protagonist? That seems pretty Sage-like to me. Also, three old ladies? Three old wise women would be more appropriate.
Sally- The Lover
Motto: Again, in actual literature, rather than cookie cutter fairy tales constructed from pre-made parts, characters seldom have a motto.
Core Desire: Intimacy and Experience.
Goal: To be able to love without being judged by the world.
Greatest fear: It isn't mentioned.
Strategy: Flirting with boys, and maybe agreeing to kiss a group of them for some strange reason?
Weakness: She's too easily convinced, I suppose.
Talent: Making this story very, very strange.
Sally just wants to love and love and love. How could that not make her the Lover?
Motto: Again, in actual literature, rather than cookie cutter fairy tales constructed from pre-made parts, characters seldom have a motto.
Core Desire: Intimacy and Experience.
Goal: To be able to love without being judged by the world.
Greatest fear: It isn't mentioned.
Strategy: Flirting with boys, and maybe agreeing to kiss a group of them for some strange reason?
Weakness: She's too easily convinced, I suppose.
Talent: Making this story very, very strange.
Sally just wants to love and love and love. How could that not make her the Lover?