The House On Mango Street Canteen Analysis

In the excerpt, the author shows Esperanza's motivation to get to eat in the canteen by having her beg her mom, complain about how far it is, and state that she believes you are special if you can eat in the canteen. To start off, Esperanza states, “The special kids, the one who wear keys around their necks, get to eat in the canteen”. Esperanza is upset that there are people that get to stay in the school and get to eat there because she thinks that that makes them special and wants to be like them. She says the word “special” which is showing us that she thinks that the kids who get to eat in the canteen get to have something that the other kids don't have which makes them more powerful. This helps us be able to see what motivates her to go to the
She thinks that they have some crazy power that they get to use just because they have to eat lunch at school. She has to deal with the fact that she could be like them but has to stay going home and be out of the cool kids. All of this lets us understand one of the things that motivate Esperanza to want to eat in the canteen. Moreover, we again see that she desires to be in the canteen because she proclaims in the expert, “My home isn’t far but it’s not close either”. We know that Esperanza wants to stay at the canteen but we don't know exactly why. Esperanza doesn't want to walk home and would rather get to stay and not have to waste her energy walking from place to place over and over again. This is showing us that another reason to why she wants to be in the canteen is that she thinks that the walk that she has to make each day from school to her house is just too far and she doesn't want to have to make it 4 times a day. This help shed light upon that fact that Esperanza is not just wanting to be a cool kid in school but also is a little bit lazy! She is showing us that it’s not just that she wants to eat in the canteen but she doesn’t want to have to walk a couple of blocks a