Esperanza sees everyone in her community and in someway gets influenced by them. Whenever Esperanza sees someone in her neighborhood doing something worth writing about, she gets into deep thought about it. Esperanza also gets influenced by her own friends and family too. In this book Esperanza gets affected by the community she lives in and the people that live there.
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In this book Esperanza gets affected by the community she lives in and the people that live there. “On the avenue a boy on a homemade bicycle calls out: Ladies, lead me me to heaven(pg 41).” In this sentence Esperanza is being influenced by the people in her neighborhood because someone around her is complimenting her based on how she looks. This type of compliment happened because of the neighborhood and the type of vocabulary that they use where she lives. There are many things that affect Esperanza. …show more content…
“But when I got there Sally said go home. Those boys said leave us alone. I felt stupid with my brick. They all looked at me as if I was the one that was crazy and made me feel ashamed. And then I don't know why but I had to run away. I had to hide myself at the other end of the garden, in the jungle part, under a tree that wouldn't mind if I lay down and cried a long time. I closed my eyes like tight stars so that I wouldn't, but I did. My face felt hot. Everything inside hiccupped(pg 92).” This clearly shows that the neighborhood has built her into a certain type of person, and she gets affected very harshly by certain comments. Also the people in her neighborhood did those actions that led to her actions which made her cry, and feel worthless. There are many ways Esperanza gets affected by her