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Don't let anything negative change your views on life and focusing on the positive allows one to live in harmony. We can see this when she focus ones on the negative of her sandals she feels sad even with her new dress. But when she looks at the positive she enjoys her life.

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This can be connected to Esperanza’s view and emotions towards the baptism at that time. In that she felt that she was ugly and childish due to her chanclas and looking out of place.

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“My feet swell big and heavy like plungers, but I drag them across the linoleum floor straight center where Uncle wants to show off the new dance we learned.” Pg. 47

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Esperanza

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Church Baptism after party

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Shows how the chanclas feel on her and what she thinks about them. Showing her embarrassment for looking childish.

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Esperanza uses a simile to describe her feet as if they were plungers; signifying her disapproval of her shoes and the way she believes they make her look.