![]() And, to top it all off, she has to see this girl everyday in P.E! P.E.-the one class Esperanza truly despises the most.Ĭould life be any worse for her? Well, her family could take in a relative hopped up on drugs, a probable shooting can take place right in front of her, and Esperanza could also sit and listen to the crazed ranting of her loud psychotic mother. Now, she has made herself the prime target for a main course. On the very first day, she is sucked into a blunder of catastrophic events beginning with accidentally running into the world’s BIGGEST bully. ![]() ![]() And she hadn’t even started high school yet.Īfter surviving a scorching summer heat, Esperanza enters the unfamiliar world of high-school with a tight knot in her stomach. Yep, her life was nothing but a huge load of crap. Her entire circle of relatives consisted of nothing but formers- former drug-addicts, former gangsters and gang-bangers, former alcoholics, former everything. ![]() ![]() Her father was a drunken gambler, and wife-beater who, one cold night, got arrested after a violent intrusion. Lopezįourteen-year old Esperanza Ignacio could only think of a few words to sum up her life: crap, crap, crap! She was born into a poor Latino family living in a small crummy apartment in the barrio side of town, where the graffiti chiseled more the souls and character of the residents than it impacted the exterior looks of the buildings. ![]()
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