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Esperanza was confident because her mom bought her a new outfit for her cousin's baptism so she could look nice in front of everyone. But she soon becomes ashamed and embarrassed again because her mom forgot to buy new shoes with it. She was forced to wear her old everyday shoes. After the baptism, everyone was dancing and celebrating, except Esperanza. Her uncle comes up to her and asks her to dance but she refuses because she doesn't want other people to see her "ugly feet." In the beginning of the book, she would have let this ruin her night, but instead, she overcomes it and ends up dancing with her uncle and enjoying the night. This shows development in her identity because even though she is ashamed of her shoes she doesn't let her embarrassment get in the way of her having a good time.

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"Then uncle Nacho is pulling and pulling my arm and it doesn't matter how new the dress Mama bought is because my feet are ugly until mu uncle who is a liar says, You are the prettiest girl here, will you dance, but I believe him, and yes, we are dancing."

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This picture of the sunset represents Esperanza's identity. All the different colors and shapes in the sky represent the different aspects of her identity and all come together to form it. If you were to look at a picture of a sky as Esperanza's personality in the beginning of the book it would have been a plain blue sky with some clouds. This is because in the beginning of the book, Esperanza was immature and doesn't really have her own identity yet. Now towards the end of the book, she has matured and become her own person.

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Throughout the book, Esperanza works on finding herself and building her own identity. Towards the end of the book, she realizes that writing gives her a sensation of freedom and helps her better understand herself. She begins writing about her story and how she never wanted to live on Mango Street. This is a repetition from the first chapter of the book except, this time her thoughts are much more mature. This shows the development of Esperanza and her identity. She decides that she will go through with her dream of leaving Mango Street. But instead of never coming back she is going to return and help the less fortunate also leave Mango Street. This again shows the development in Esperanza and how she matured throughout the book.

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"I make a story for my life, for each step my brown shoe takes. I say, "and so she trudged up the wooden stairs, her sad brown shoes taking her to the house she never liked." ( Cisneros 109)

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At the beginning of the book, we can see how Esperanza is very insecure about herself. She is ashamed of who she is. Even something like her name she doesn't like. Esperanza is not confident and lets what other people think get to her. Your name is a part of your identity and who you are. Esperanza says how her name in Spanish is too many letters and sadness. Because she thinks like this it already makes her less confident a sure of herself.

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"In English my name means hope. In Spanish it means too many letters. It means sadness, it means waiting. It is like the number nine. A muddy color." (Cisneros 10)

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At first Esperanza is embarrassed and ashamed of who she is, however, as she experiences different things, she learns to overcome this and become more confident and sure of herself.

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This happened twords the beginning of the book. Esperanza was already insecure about the new neighborhood she had just moved into. She was ashamed of the conditions of the place and she didn't other people knowing she lived there. She wanted to live in "one of those houses you see on tv." When she met Cathy, she began bragging about how she was related to the queen of France and how her family was going to move back there so they could inherit their share. This made Esperanza jealous of her and wish she had that luxury. Seeing how she developed from the beginning of the book till the end of the book you can see how through the people around her and her friends she finds her own voice and forms her own identity.

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"She says, I am the great great grand cousin of the queen of France. She lives upstairs, over there, next door to Joe the baby-grabber." (Cisneros 12)

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The two different oceans that don't mix represent two different friends, different people. And although people can help and support each other and be similar they can also help each other to find and help shape their own personalities and become their own people. The two different colors of the ocean represent the two different personalities and identities that people can have. They don't have to mix or be the same for them to be friends.

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In the beginning of The House on Mango Street, Esperanza is a quiet and timid person. She is ashamed of who she is and where she lives. People around her like her teachers and friends shame and judge her. Throughout the book we can see Esperanza develop into a may independent person. She finds her own voice and forms her own opinions. In this moment Esperanza and her friends Alicia are talking about how Esperanza lives on Mango Street and how "she is Mango Street" Esperanza firmly says no (which is out of character for her). Alicia says how like it or not she will end up returning to Mango Street. She says that no, how she will never come back to Mango Street, not until someone makes it better for them. This show development for Esperanza. Because instead of her just staying quiet and excepting what someone is telling her, she stands up for herself and voice what she thinks and what she believes.

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"No, Alicia says. Like it or not you are Mango Street, and one day you'll come back too. Not me. Not until somebody makes it better." (Cismeros 106)

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Esperanza feels as if she dosen't have many friends. So when Racheal and Lucy came to her offering to be her friend for only five dollars, she had to take the opportunity. Cathy one of Esperanza's only friends, looks down on Racheal and Lucy. But Esperanza felt differently. She wanted to be their friends. She felt as if they wouldn't judge her like others her age do because they were from the same social class. She felt safer with them because she feels that they wouldn't judge who she is because of where she lives or what her culture is.

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"Don't talk to them, says Cathy. Can't you see they smell like a broom. But I like them. Their clothes are crooked and old." (Cisneros 14)

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Through her interaction with others on Mango Street, Esperanza learns to shape her own identity and becomes more self aware