"In English my name means hope. In Spanish it means too many letters. It means sadness, it means waiting. It is like the number nine. A muddy color. It is the mexican records my father plays on Sunday mornings when he is shaving, songs like sobbing." This chapter as a whole is a key to the entire novel but this quote really stood out. The vignettes do not have that much in common but one thing that really runs through all of them is Esperanzas hope. She is full of wishes and dreams. She dreams of the house she does not have and talks about the sister she wants as a friend but can't be. She states, "Someday I will have a best friend all my own." Knowing that she is full of hope really makes reading the vignettes have a different feel to them. She is a little girl and hopes for so much out of life and to know this while reading this entire book is very helpful.
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