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Esperanza's mother gives her and her friends three pairs of high heels. The girls are so excited, and they have fun learning how to walk. After they learn, they go outside, and two different men cat call them. Rachel tells the drunk man her name, and they talk to both men.

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Esperanza and her two friends, Rachel and Lucy, languish through downtown. They feel beautiful in the shoes, but they are faced with the weight of the male gaze

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Esperanza has a friend who belongs to the family of small feet, they literally have tiny and squashed feet. The mother gives her and her two friends three pairs of high heels. Esperanza, Rachel, and Lucy feel very beautiful. They run around the city and a lot of men and boys look at them. One shop owner tells them to take off the shoes because they are too young to be wearing them. Then they meet a drunkard, Rachel tell him her name and Lucy asks for a dollar in exchange for a kiss with him. Eventually they leave because they are tired of being pretty.

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Esperanza attends her cousin's baptism party at the beginning of Chanclas. She talks about the new dress she recently purchased. However, she is humiliated by the brown shoes she is told to wear. Esperanza immediately denies the idea of dancing, saying that her feet hurts. But eventually accepts when her uncle asks. She notices the people staring at her as she dances with him.

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Esperanza wants to eat at the canteen instead of at home because that’s where all the “special” kids eat. She pesters her mother until she finally gives in and makes a her lunch and gives her a note saying she can eat at the canteen. Even with the note, however, Sister superior still scolds Esperanza for not living far enough away to eat at the canteen. Esperanza was allowed to eat at the canteen for only one day and while she eats her cold rice sandwich, she realizes the canteen is not very special at all.

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She wants to eat lunch in the school cafeteria because she thinks it is special. Her mother agrees to her request. After getting approval from Sister Superior, Esperanza goes to the school canteen and asks for her lunch.

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Esperanza goes to her cousin's baptism party, and gets a new dress to arrive in. When she has to wear her brown shoes, which she believes she has outgrown, she is ashamed. She won't dance with the other people at the party because of her shame. But when her uncle asks her to dance, she agrees.

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In this vignette, Esperanza wants to eat lunch at school, or at the canteen. She wants to be with all the "special kids" who live far away, and be able to eat there. At first her mom disagrees with her going, but after some more persuading, her mom agrees, sending her to school with a note and a rice sandwich. When lunch comes, Esperanza lines up in the canteen. However, the nuns handing out the food stopped her, realizing that she was not a regular at the canteen. She shoes them the note, but is sent to sister superior for approval. Sister superior knows that she does not actually live very far away, and scolds Esperanza. She starts to cry, eating her cold rice sandwich, and then realizes that the canteen is nothing special.

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In this chapter Esperanza starts off by begging her mom to stop making her home made lunches and instead allow her to eat at the canteen. Her mom didn't agree at first but Esperanza claimed it would make less dishes at home. As a response her mom sends her to school with a note explaining a few reasons to let Esperanza eat at the canteen. As lunch time approaches Esperanza is sent from the lunch line to sister superior for approval. She ends up getting scolded for her home not being far away enough for her to able to eat at the canteen. She ends up crying eating the rice sandwich her mom packed for her alone as the kids starred.

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In this vignette esperanza wants to eat her lunch at the canteen because that is where the "Important kids" eat when they are to far from home. She begs her mother if she could eat at the canteen. Her mother finally agrees and packs her a rice sandwich. When lining up at the canteen she is stopped by a nun who questions her and is strict with her. Esperanza starts to cry while eating her cold sandwich and realizes the canteen is not special and not what she wanted.

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In this story Esparanza goes to her cousins baptism. She notices everyone's outfits. She doesn't want to dance because of how her feet feel becuase her shoes are too small.

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Esperanza is going to her cousin's baptism party, and she gets a new dress for this occasion. However, she has to wear her regular brown shoes to the party. She is ashamed of how she has to wear those shoes as she believes that she has outgrown them. Because of this, she refuses to dance with the other people. She finally agrees when her uncle asks her to dance, when she realizes that there are many people watching her.

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Esperanza wants to eat in the Canteen during lunch and convinced her mom to let her eat there. When she gets to school the next day the nun asks her why she wants to and she hands her a letter explaining why. Even though the Nun doesn't agree to the reasoning behind the letter, she still allows her to eat the for one day. But because the Nun scolded Esperanza, Esperanza was upset and cried. And when she went to eat in the Canteen, it wasn't that special after all.

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One day someone gives Esperanza, Nenny, Rachel, and Lucy a paper bag that is filled with old high heeled shoes. They all try on the shoes and likes how the shoes makes their legs look more prettier and more taller. When they go out to the neighborhood with their heels on, Mr. Benny tells all of them that it is dangerous for little girls to wear such heels, but they do not care about what he just told them. When they walked a little more, men and boys catcalled them and a boy tried to flirt with Rachel, asking for a kiss for a dollar. All of the girls are scared and frightened by this event and runs away to their home. Later, Lucy hides her shoes under a basket on the back porch, but later Rachel's mom throws away the heels. They girls are glad that the heels are thrown away.

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WHen she goes to a party in her new dress, but is also wearing her old brwon sandels. She is asked to dance but is very skeptical since she has outgrown them, but with some encourage ment she dances.

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Esperanza has just gotten a brand new pink and white dress and is asked to dance many times but says no because her feet hurt, but she finally gives in when her uncle compliments her and she dances.

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To begin, Esperanza walked around with her friends and they all wore heels.

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Esperanza begins by describing shoes and feet and admire the way they look on each family member. Her mother offers her and her friends a pair of pretty heels and they wear them, feeling pretty in their new shoes. Someone warns her that wearing those shoes are dangerous but after they get complimented by boys, they ignore the warning and express their love for these shoes. At the end, they were catcalled and harassed bye a creepy man. This traumatized the girls and they never wanted to wear their pretty shoes ever again. I think the pretty shoes really symbolize beauty and appealing to the male gaze. How it can be joyful to be pretty, feel pretty and be called pretty. But also how creepy men will make you regret dressing up and feeling beautiful.

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In the vignette, Esperanza wants to eat at the canteen instead of at home. She tries to convince her mom, saying that there would be less dishes and it would be easier on her. Her mom finally agrees and writes a note saying that Esperanza gets tired walking home everyday for lunch. When Esperanza shows the note to her teacher however, they say that it isn't true and force her to point out her house, saying that she could stay for only today. Esperanza realizes it isn't even that wonderful of a place after all.

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Esperanza want to eat in the canteen and have her mother make her lunch one day but her mother says no because then all of her other siblings would want lunch too and she would have to spend a long time making them.  Her mother agrees after a couple days and Esperanza goes to the canteen to eat lunch.  Sister Superior stops her and asks why she wants to eat at the canteen and she gives her a letter.  She still scolds Esperanza though and allowed her to eat the the canteen for one day only.  She cried because she had scolded her and was eating lunch in the Canteen with a cold rice sandwich and had noticed that there wasn't anything special of eating at the canteen.

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Esperanza wants to eat lunch in the canteen so one day she asks her mom to pack her a lunch but she says no. After a couple days her mom agrees and Esperanza goes to school with her lunch. During lunch she is sent to Sister Superior who does not believe she lives far away and scolds her. Esperanza cries and the nun ends up allowing her to eat in the canteen for one day.

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Esperanza is exited to go to er cousins baptism because of her new dress and shoes. Until her mom comes home with her new dress but not shoes. She is sad about having to wear her regular school shoes until her uncle tells her to dance. She feels okay but later notices that her uncle is watching her.

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Esperanza wants to be able to eat lunch in the school canteen because she thinks that it is special. She asks her mother to pack a rice sandwich as lunch for school. Initially, Esperanza's mother doesn't agree. However, she gives in after Esperanza convinces her that there would be less dishes to wash if lunch was packed. So, Esperanza's mother packs a rice sandwich and a letter and sends her off to school. Though she gets Sister Superior's approval to eat in the school canteen for just one day, Esperanza realizes that there is nothing special about the school canteen.

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In this vignette, Esperanza has just gotten this brand new pink and white dress and is wearing it to her little cousin's baptism. She mentions how she's wearing her old brown school sandals. She feels embarassed to wear them because she feels that she has outgrown them and they are not mature enough. She dancing with her uncle and starts to realize that there are people starting at her. She comes to terms with that fact that there are men staring at her and she is a victim of the male gaze because she is becoming a woman.

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In Chanclas, Esperanza and her family are going to her little cousins baptism. She describes that she is wearing a pink and white-striped dress. After, they go to the after baptism party wear her Uncle Nacho is their. He begins to compliment her looks  and her dress and urges her to dance. She doesn´t want to dance because her feet hurt but she finally is convinced. Her and Uncle Nacho dance but he is being really creepy.