Poverty chased Esperanza’s family even before she was born. As her mom said, “I quit school? Because I didn’t have nice clothes” (90). Her mother said because she didn’t go to the school because she didn’t get the good clothes to go to the school. In other words, she doesn’t get the right clothes to face the community. The thoughts of community that reached to Esperanza was not nice to her. One of the thoughts were if you are very poor you cannot have friends. That what Racheal and her sister say in indirect way. Another thought was you are nothing if you live in a house in bad condition. And many unacceptable thoughts.
