 | Juli‡n Olivares - 1986 - 204 sivua
...think this is a Chinese lie because the Chinese, like the Mexicans, don't like their women strong ... At school they say my name funny as if the syllables...Magdalena who at least can come home and become Nenny. But I am always Esperanza. I would like to baptize myself under a new name, a name more like the real me,... | |
 | Renato Rosaldo - 1993 - 292 sivua
...wanted to be. Esperanza. I have inherited her name, but I don't want to inherit her place by the window. At school they say my name funny as if the syllables...Magdalena who at least can come home and become Nenny. But I am always Esperanza. I would like to baptize myself under a new name, a name more like the real me,... | |
 | Héctor Calderón, José David Saldívar - 1991 - 312 sivua
...wanted to be. Esperanza. I have inherited her name, but I don't want to inherit her place by the window. At school they say my name funny as if the syllables...Magdalena who at least can come home and become Nenny. But I am always Esperanza. I would like to baptize myself under a new name, a name more like the real me,... | |
 | Frances Bartkowski - 1995 - 218 sivua
...this is a Chinese lie because the Chinese, like the Mexicans, don't like their women strong. ... (12) At school they say my name funny as if the syllables...name is made out of a softer something like silver . . . I would like to baptize myself under a new name . . . (12-13) This shame and pride in the name... | |
 | Perdita Finn - 1999 - 68 sivua
...wanted to be. Esperanza. I have inherited her name, but I don't want to inherit her place by the window. At school they say my name funny as if the syllables...softer something, like silver, not quite as thick as my sister's name — Magdalena — which is uglier than mine. Magdalena who at least can come home... | |
 | Reinhild Fliethmann - 2002 - 340 sivua
...too many letters. It means sadness, it means waiting [...] At school they say my name is funny äs if the syllables were made out of tin and hurt the...name is made out of a softer something, like silver [...]." (HMS lOf.) Espe'" Olivares, Julian ( 1 996b). "Sandra Cisneros' The House on Mango Street and... | |
 | Luis Leal - 2007 - 480 sivua
...her name is a source of embarrassment at school, where non-Spanish-speaking students mispronounce it. "They say my name funny as if the syllables were made...name is made out of a softer something like silver." Esperanza's acquaintance with Mexican culture is not only the result of her being of Mexican descent.... | |
 | Elke Sturm-Trigonakis - 2007 - 280 sivua
...my name means hope. In Spanish it means too many letters. It means sadness, it means waiting. [...] At school they say my name funny as if the syllables were made out of tin hurt the roof of your mouth. But in Spanish my name is made out of a softer something, like silver,... | |
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At school they say my name funny as if the syllables were made out of tin and hurt the roof of your mouth. But in Spanish my name is made out of a softer something, like silver, not quite as thick as sister's name — Magdalena — which is uglier than... 