Esperanza feels as if she is trapped in a world that [she] can’t take. She doesn’t feel like she belongs on Mango Street and that she is being restricted by her life of poverty and her struggling identity. She feels alone and she hopes [she’s] not the only one who feels this way. I just wish I could disappear/ Someone take me far away from here/ Do you suppose there’s more to life out there? Esperanza wants to leave Mango Street. She feels as if she can make something of herself. She doesn’t want to grow up like her mother or the other girls in the community. Her plans are to exceed all of the gender expectations and be an individual. There’s no happiness surrounding me/ Hate and ugliness is all I see. Having grown up in a poor community, Esperanza has had to overcome her struggles by herself. She has lost her innocence in the monkey garden, been humiliated at school and in the canteen, and she has been violated. Her life definitely hasn’t been easy. I want to leave it all behind/ I’m running out of time. Esperanza has chosen to put everything behind her, but she is never be able to forget the memories she has made on Mango Street. Whether she likes it or not, her house on Mango Street has shaped her identity. She wants to leave the house before she runs out of time. She wants to still be able to do things away from Mango Street, before her childhood is completely over. And I don’t wanna be blind/ I wanna open my mind/ I wanna know if there’s a purpose to this life. By choosing to rise above the expectations that have been placed upon her, Esperanza wants to leave Mango Street with an open mind. When she gets a house of her own she will open it up to bums on the street, for she knows what it’s like to be poor. She doesn’t want to become too preoccupied with materialistic objects, but rather find herself. She wants to find her sole purpose in this life. She will never forget the memories she made living on Mango Street, good or bad. She will use these memories in her future to help others and see the world from different perspectives. But until then she will continue to trapped in a world that [she] can’t take.

Song: Disappear by The Summer Obsession

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