“If you give me five dollars I will be your friend forever.”
This section of the vignette Our Good Day, page 14, is an example of subjunctive mood. This is when Esperanza is listening the two girls, Rachel and Lucy, when they are persuading someone to help buy the bike that they would eventually share. Cisnero’s use of the subjunctive mood helps reveal Esperanza’s inner wishes to have friends. Esperanza then says that the prices is cheap, since she only has one friend, Cathy, and she will only be her friend until Tuesday. Esperanza is so desperate to acquire a friend that she thinks giving money and then stealing her sister’s money, is acceptable.
“if you don’t get them you may turn into a man.”
This passage is from the vignette Hips, on page
This section of the vignette Our Good Day, page 14, is an example of subjunctive mood. This is when Esperanza is listening the two girls, Rachel and Lucy, when they are persuading someone to help buy the bike that they would eventually share. Cisnero’s use of the subjunctive mood helps reveal Esperanza’s inner wishes to have friends. Esperanza then says that the prices is cheap, since she only has one friend, Cathy, and she will only be her friend until Tuesday. Esperanza is so desperate to acquire a friend that she thinks giving money and then stealing her sister’s money, is acceptable.
“if you don’t get them you may turn into a man.”
This passage is from the vignette Hips, on page