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Stories of Human Rights
Character:
What does the character think/feel?
How do you know? What are his/her actions? How does the character interact with others?
Esperanza
• Uncomfortable
• Unhappy
• Angry
• In denial about the situation and thinks that they won’t be in that situation for long
• Page 101: Toilets. Esperanza “cringed as she tried to imagine having no privacy,” which shows her discomfort.
• Page 103: When Mama begins to sing, it says, “Esperanza felt anger crawling up her throat,” and then she has an outbur when she says to Mama, “Mama, we are living like horses! How can you sing? How can you be happy? We don’t even have a room to call our own.”
• Page 105: Denial. “I am ill rich, Isabel. We will only be here until Abuelita is well enough to travel. Then she will come with her money and we will buy a big house.”
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