You’re strong, but you aren't aware of it. You have the ability to do things you feel like you aren’t ready to do. You wish that everything will get better, you wish that everything would change just for you. After a while, you soon realize that you are not weak. An experience that might as well change your life forever, doesn’t change you or your life negatively. You finally learn how to get up and leave the place you’ve been craving to leave for a long time now. In The House on Mango Street, Esperanza starts off thinking she's weak with limited opportunities, but later she realizes she's a very strong person.
In the vignette “Red Clowns”, Esperanza experiences something that will eventually help shape her life and the decisions she makes after this event occurs. The incident that happens in this vignette is truly traumatizing. Esperanza experiences one of the very harsh ways men take advantage of women. “He wouldn’t let me go. He said I love you Spanish girl, I love you, and pressed his sour mouth to mine”(100). This quote shows how Esperanza was taken advantage of and how she was struggling and feeling weak. As the story moves on, she begins to feel less like she’s weak and helpless, she doesn’t let this event keep her in the place she loathes the most. Esperanza perseveres through this challenge so she can to achieve her goal to leave Mango …show more content…
“Their strength is secret. They send ferocious roots beneath the ground”(74). Since this vignette is not towards the vignettes where Esperanza realized she had the power to overcome the challenges in her life, this quote represents the fact that Esperanza is a very strong person but sadly, she hasn’t noticed it. The trees are described as strong and persevering- just like
In the vignette “Red Clowns”, Esperanza experiences something that will eventually help shape her life and the decisions she makes after this event occurs. The incident that happens in this vignette is truly traumatizing. Esperanza experiences one of the very harsh ways men take advantage of women. “He wouldn’t let me go. He said I love you Spanish girl, I love you, and pressed his sour mouth to mine”(100). This quote shows how Esperanza was taken advantage of and how she was struggling and feeling weak. As the story moves on, she begins to feel less like she’s weak and helpless, she doesn’t let this event keep her in the place she loathes the most. Esperanza perseveres through this challenge so she can to achieve her goal to leave Mango …show more content…
“Their strength is secret. They send ferocious roots beneath the ground”(74). Since this vignette is not towards the vignettes where Esperanza realized she had the power to overcome the challenges in her life, this quote represents the fact that Esperanza is a very strong person but sadly, she hasn’t noticed it. The trees are described as strong and persevering- just like