these specific vignettes all have to do with windows. this may be a bit silly, but the importance of these holes-in-the-wall are are not taken with such little notice. In fact, the window is actually a door or an entrance into something else. Windows are so undertaken in our daily life. However, the basic importance of a window is to let us see the outside world, to protected by knowledge, and to be a vision of sorts of a possible reality. this reality is the way we as people dream and wonder, the window is just the tool we sometimes use to do this.

in the book The House on Mango Street, the way windows are shown is eaxctly this. in this passage, Esparanza explains how her great grandmother was forced to marry her husband. "she looked out the window her whole life, the way so many women sit their saddness on thier elbow." pg 11. She explains that most woman have bad things that happen to them. therefore, the window helps them feel a better sense of self by letting them see the world that they live in.

 in another qoute, Sandra Cisneros says this, "she sits all day by the radio, listening to the spanish radio and sings all the homesick songs about her country in a voice that sounds like a seagull." pg 77. Again we can see that she has a need, a dream, to accomplish, just like the great grandmother. they both feel that they are here, on this planet, for a sense of purpose. she writes that she can only be happy in her own dreams. Both of these woman dream like this, how they need to serve and live for a greater purpose.

this last qoute on pages 82 and 83 basically summarize what i have been trying to say. "and if you opened the little window latch and gave it a shove, the windows swing open, all the sky would come in." i like this quote alot because it is the whole meaning of dreaming. to let something, and awesome idea or image of something that could be, which is mysterious, just like the sky.