ust eat in the canteen maybe, she cold be "special."Chapter 19-Chanclas"And Uncle spins me, and my skinny arms bend the way he taught me, and my mother watches, and my little cousins watch, and the boy who is my cousin by first communion watches, and everyone says, wow, who are those two who dance like in the movies, until I forget that I am wearing only ordinary shoes, brown and white, the kind my mother buys each year for school."I think that it's so cute how Esperanza just forgets about her old shoes. Her uncle made her feel so pretty. I think that Esperanza is really excited because she is getting older, and more mature, and when the boy was watching her dance and gazing at her she felt just like a women. I think during each chapter she gets more mature. I can kind of think how she feels with her old shoes. One time I got this really nice dress for a dance, and I totally forgot that I didn't have shoes to wear with it, and so my mom and me ran out to buy some. They didn't have really any that matched my dress so we had to get ones that didn't match. It ended up that I got to the dance and everyone was taking their shoes off. So I took them off and danced barefoot. Chapter 20-Hips"They Bloom like roses, I continue because it's obvious I'm the only one who can speak with authority; I have science on my side."Esperanza is so independent and strong. In a way they do bloom like roses. There was also another quote that made me think. "Ready to take you where?" This quote just leaves me thinking. Because hips do so much for a women. They give you a nice figure, and totally add to almost everything you do in a day. Each girl ends up getting them sometime or another, and when they do they really have started to grow into a women.Chapter 21-The First Job"I thought I would because he was so old and just as I was about to put my lips on his cheek, he grabs my face with both hands and kisses me hard on the mouth and doesn't let go."I can't beli...