nza?s father said, ?Nobody went to public school unless you wanted to turn out bad.? (53). Esperanza?s job was at a photo shop that her Aunt had once worked at. At the photo shop she matched the negatives with the photos. She also has not been able to keep friends because of her constant moving around. Esperanza is very ashamed about many things such as her name, which means ?too many letters? in Spanish and ?hope? in English. People make fun of her name, and she thinks it sounds like something from a Mexican song that her father plays while he shaves (10). She is ashamed about her house because it is so run down and has a poor appearance, but it looks like all the other houses in the vicinity. People who come to her neighborhood want to leave because it frightens them by being so run down and dirty (28). The final thing she is ashamed of is not having money to pay for school and her having to get a job to go to high school. Esperanza was depressed during her earlier years of going to school. The thing, she has no friends, she even gave two girls five dollars so they could buy a bike and be her lifetime friend (14-16). Esperanza also had many troubles in her life that made her depressed. One of them was being raped by a clown during which she went through about every feeling that you can possibly think of that people could go through i

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Approximate Word count = 905
Approximate Pages = 4 (250 words per page double spaced)