Question

How does the narrator establish a conflict between her Mexican identity and the English-speaking country she lives ? ( Consider when she mentions Mexicans or Spanish versus when she mentions English , school , and her classmates .) How is her name tied to her cultural and racial identity ?

Answer 1

She shows how her name is spoken in a strange way at school, among classmates, as if it hurt to pronounce it, however among her Spanish speaking community, her name was soft and seemed to be something precious, like silver . That's because, in the Latin community, her name is natural, inherent, as something accepted that is part of that. At school, in the midst of so many American children's names, her name suffered a certain rejection, as if that name did not belong there.

Her name is common among Latin communities, which shows the roots that formed it, in addition to making a connection between Esperanza's willingness to change her reality and achieve better living standards than her community offers. This feeling is very common in Latin communities and countries, which provides a strong link between her cultural and racial values, in addition to being a very strong reference to the hopes she has in the future and the hopes that her great-grandmother had in the past.