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A photo of Marin humming her melody about love.

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Sandra Cisneros uses metaphors and similes throughout this vignette, "Meme Ortiz", to portray the theme that it is harder for someone to find their identity when they grow up bi-cultural.

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"Meme has a dog with gray eyes, a sheepdog with two names, one in English and one in Spanish. The dog is big, like a man dressed in a dog suit..." (Cisneros 21)

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-Names
-Society
-Identity

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Within the vignette "Louie, His Cousin, and His Other Cousin," Cisneros portrays themes of coming of age, crime, and poverty, in Esperanza's neighborhood through the use of parallelism, simile, and motifs.

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“Apples, peaches, pumpkin pah-ay. You’re in love and so am ah-ay.”

(Cisneros 24)

“The seats were big and soft like a sofa, and there was a little white cat in the back window whose eyes lit up when the car stopped or turned.” (Cisneros 24)

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- Teenage Growth
- Youth/Being Young

- Desperation

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Meme Ortiz's name is Juan but he goes by meme and he just moved into Cathy's house after her family moved away. He also has a dog with and Spanish and an English name. The house he moved into is lopsided and it has a tree in the back with large, fat arms. This tree was chosen for the First Annual Tarzan Jumping Contest in which Meme won but broke both arms.

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Living downstairs in Meme Ortiz’s house’s basement resides a Puerto Rican family; Louie’s family according to Esperanza. Louie has an older cousin named Marin and she constantly repeats the same melody talking about being in love. Louie is also the eldest son and has an older cousin who stole a car in order to give the youths of the neighborhood a couple drives around the neighborhood before he was inevitably arrested by the police.