Analytical Essay: The Death Of Esperanza

Esperanza was woken up early in the morning by her dad with news that her abuelito is dead. She is unsure with what to do since she has never seen her father cry before and she is the first to know of all her siblings. Her father is traveling to Mexico to the funeral and is leaving Esperanza with the responsibility to stay strong and tell her siblings. Esperanza imagines what she would do if her father died and how terrible she would feel as she says, “And I think if my own Papa died what would I do. I hold my Papa in my arms. I hold and hold and hold him”(57). Esperanza is too young for her father to die of natural causes, so she does not know how it would feel to loose someone so important and crucial in her life. The song, I am still standing,