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Song Analysis: Don T Let Me Get Me
Esperanza starts the vignette with saying how she will most likely go to hell. Her mother puts her down as well as herself. She has told her that she was born on an evil day and that her, Lucy, and Rachel all pray for her as she says, “Most likely I will go to hell and most likely I deserve to be their. My mother says I was born on an evil day and prays for me. Lucy and Rachel pray too”(58). Esperanza relates herself to her aunt that was a fantastic swimmer one day and very sick the next. The song, Don’t Let Me Get Me, relates to the vignette Born Bad because both the song and the vignette are about self hatred and wishing to be something you can’t be.
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