Sandra Cisneros gives the impression that Esperanza will "come back " for the ones she "left behind". I believe that she will come back and help but maybe not physically but through education. The importance of education comes up often representing that it is very important to become educated. this means that she will be an educated women helping her community. I believe also that through opening up and really focusing on the theme of education.
Education shows up as a quest for independence and identity. this means that she has to be educated to find her self. When she is able to find her self, she will be able to help others. this quote i have is merely the whole vignette, and, in order to decrease my length, here is the title (which actually sums up what i am saying) : "A House of My Own" (108). Here, it explains how she cannot wait for a "house of her own" and how she needs to find her self. She explains that it is important that the house is her own and not anyone else's. As we saw in the beginning of the book, she identifies herself and people a with their house. (Which is a little materialistic.)
Another side of this identity/education joining is that she believes that her house, her identity will be quiet and that it will be "Only a house quiet as snow, a space for myself to go, clean as paper before the poem." (108). this means that she feels that it is important to have identity. Without identity, we would not be able to acknowledged our selves as different and unique because we would have no identifying qualities.
Lastly, the beliefs of identity show up also in how she thinks that she has to live up to a standard. However, during the vignette Red Clowns, she says "All the books and magazines, everything that told it wrong" (100) This shows how she believes, or rather that society believes that she should be a certain way and that the standards of being "beautiful" is higher than those that she is at right now.
In conclusion, i think that she will come back and change this community of her life. She will do this through education, and by education, finding and identifying herself.
Very cool theory...Notice in the "about the author" at the very end of the book, how Cisneros herself has spent time teaching? ;) I think you're onto something.
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