The effect of Esperanza Rising, I have to say cause her to feels out of place, like a stranger. She wants to fit in and she felt that being a mexican, she feels she's ugly because she can't fit in with the white people.
Esperanza thinks of herself as the ugly daughter who nobody comes to visit. Espranza felt that her sister Nenny has beautiful eyes and Esperanza thinks that beautiful people like Nenny can talk about leaving home all the time, because they are pretty and have fewer worries.Esperanza does not want to spend all her life waiting for a husband to come and take her away, nor does she want to be like Minerva's sister, is kicked out of her home because she has a baby. Despite her looks, Esperanza claims to have a new plan. She will not be one of the red-lipped women in the movies who can play with men like toys.
She will grow up rugged, leave the dinner table like a man, and never pick up her plates.She does not believe in herself. Esperanza constantly puts herself down, like when she states, “I am an ugly daughter. I am the one nobody comes for. ” She feels different from everybody else; she thinks her hair is weird, her name is difficult, she is not pretty.
She lets the feelings she has for the street she hates intertwine with her feelings she has about herself and because she is ashamed of who she is and where she comes from.
