Only If: A Rice Sandwich By Sandra Cisneros

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Being unwanted is unfair. It’s a horrible feeling. Everyone should be treated the same and should be appreciated. In the Vignette, “A Rice Sandwich” by Sandra Cisneros,” Esperanza does not want to go home for lunch time because she feels unwanted and unappreciated at home. In this chapter, she tells her mom, “You would see me less and less and like me better”p.g44. So Esperanza would rather not go home and rather be at school. She wants to stay at The Canteen, a place in were students stay there to eat if their home is far from school. Esperanza tries to enter into the canteen, but the supervisors at the canteen don’t let her in because they know she lives across the street. They tell her she is not allowed, so she walked all sad
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This is not expected when I go home after school. Once the bell rings at 3:00 o’clock at Roosevelt elementary school, every kid gets picked up by their parent or the bus takes them home. When I stared at their faces, I could tell they have this excitement to go home, but I asked myself how come I do not feel like that? Then that’s when I realize that their parents loved them and paid attention to them. My parents, unfortunately, are always fighting and arguing. It’s an everyday thing. There’s not a day in which both of my parents are happy with each other and paying attention at …show more content…
One day I decided to not go home one night. I went to the mall and spend the right of the day there. I walked all around the mall like 20 times. The purpose of going to the mall was because I wanted to see if my parents would notice if I was home if they would care to look for me since they never cared about. I was about like 8:48 when I decided to go back home. I stared walking I notice my father in the car on 11th street yelling bebo!! I look back and yes it was my dad. He got off the car said where you have been. I said at the mall. I noticed he was mad and worried. I could tell because he was shaking. He told me that my mom was looking too. Later that night I explained that I feel unwanted at home and that I hate when they fight. We all started to cry.. It was like a wakeup call for them. I pretty much told them I kid and I get scared when they fight and argue. They later made one of the best choices ever to get help and counseling. All of us as family when to get

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