Throughout her early childhood, Esperanza was always trying to move past the poverty she knew all too well. For a while, Esperanza was living in an apartment on Loomis Street, it was so poverty stricken that the pipes didn't even work, and the landlord didn't want to fix them because the apartment was "too old". One day Esperanza was playing outside when a nun passed by her apartment, the nun openly showed her disgust for Esperanza's apartment by saying, "You live there?" After this Esperanza sees

Another hindrance Esperanza learns to get past, is the discrimination towards her because of the distinct features of being female and Hispanic in a very oppressive neighborhood. She temporarily befriends a white girl named Cathy who, soon after they become friends, moves away because "...people like us (Esperanza and the rest of the Hispanic population) keep moving in." This is the earliest out of many times Esperanza feels frustration and anger towards her Hispanic heritage, and she wants to be anything but a little Spanish girl. However she uses these inequitable feelings to fuel the fire in her belly, and eventually she realizes that she is not the one with the problem, people like Cathy are. In accession she feels even more pessimistic towards her future because she is a woman, which just might be the straw that breaks the camel's back. In talking about her great grandmother, Esperanza says, "I have inherited her name, but I don't want to inherit her place by the window." Esperanza sees her future becoming reminiscent of th

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Approximate Word count = 701
Approximate Pages = 3 (250 words per page double spaced)