Characterization Assignment
Storyboard Text
- Esperanza's Looks
- Esperanza's thoughts
- Esperanza's actions
- Page 6: "And me, my hair is lazy. It never obeys barrettes or bands."
- Reactions of others towards Esperanza
- Page 47: "My feet scuffed and round, and the heels all crooked that look dumb with this dress, so I just sit."
- Esperanza's speach
- Page 97: "I looked at her a long time, but couldn't think of anything to say, and ran back down the three flights of stairs to the garden where Sally needed to be saved. I took three big sticks and a brick and figured this was enough."
- Esperanza's thoughts
- Page 45: "And then she made me stand up and point. That one? she said, pointing to a row of ugly three-flats, the ones even the raggedy men are ashamed to go into. Yes, I nodded even though I knew that wasn't my house and started to cry."
- Page 44: "If I ate at school there’d be less dishes to wash. You would see me less and less and like me better. Everyday at noon my chair would be empty. Where is my favorite daughter you would cry, and when I came home finally at three p.m. you would appreciate me."
- Page 100: "Why did you leave me all alone? I waited my whole life. You’re a liar. They all lied. All the books and magazines, everything that told it wrong. Only his dirty fingernails against my skin, only his sour smell again. "
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