I feel as though one of the deeper meanings of this book is this girl finding herself. Throughout all of the vignettes there is an issue of "names". The fourth vignette is titled, "My Name". Esperanza talks about what her name means and all of her hopes. She does not love her name and wishes for many things. I think this beginning of not loving her "name" and hoping for a lot is her trying to find herself and figure out who she is and who the people around her are. Later on in the book, a vignette is titled "Meme Oritz". This vignette opens with how this characters real name is Juan but he wants to be called by something else as well. Later on in the book I read a vignette titled, "Geraldo No Last Name". This character was a mystery and no one knew where he had come from all they knew was it was "north". The many instances that names are mentioned in the book all relate to the fact that someone is trying to find out who they are or Esperanza is trying to figure out who they are and I think this is something Sandra Cisneros wanted to show in her book. She wrote on the back ... "Esperanza's story is that of a young girl coming into her power, and inventing for herself what she will become.
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