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Analyzing Esperanza's 'Minerva Writes Poems'
In the vignette “Minerva Writes Poems” the reader can infer that Minerva is not happy with her life and the choices she made.On page 84 it states “Minerva cries because her luck is unlucky”.Minerva is not happy and she writes poems to let out what she is feeling in the inside and Esperanza wants to help but there is nothing she can do.Minerva gets hit by her husbands and kicks him out alway lets him come back.On page 85 it states that “Out the door he goes clothes,record,shows out the window and locks the door but the night comes back throw rook at the window and say he's sorry and she opens the door, same story over again she is black and blue.
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