Either toward the beginning or middle of the narrative. Towards the beginning would be a good opening to a narrative and launches straight into the action, in the middle of a narrative it can come after the events leading up to the excerpt.
I think it’s to fasten firmly. After the word secure it says “or attach”.
Answer:
Esperanza does not want to grow up like her mother.
Explanation:
I would say that this is the answer. Options 2 and 3 don't seem to have anything to do with her mother. Option 1 is talking about the smell of Esperanza's mother's hair and not necessarily about her mother as a person. Option 4 sounds like the only one that is talking about her mother.
New York is a nice place, but for some, more risks are shown to them. Young boys, children, from rough backgrounds, face a danger that others don’t. Boys face the risk of becoming something worse in a place that is supposed to make them better, facing bigger problems in the prejudice world. If these boys are to take a risk, or even a chance, they have all the odds against them. Because of not who they are, but of what they are seen as. Making these young boys, boys that did nothing, are made into what they are seen as. This is what Rios is saying about the lives of young boys in New York.
