| Bonnie TuSmith - 1994 - 236 ˹éÒ
...who find a way out have the obligation to return, as the final lines in the text reassure us: "They will not know I have gone away to come back. For the ones I left behind. For the ones who cannot out [sic]" (102). This ending shows that Esperanza has absorbed the three sisters" message. Thus, the... | |
| Jay Clayton - 1993 - 222 ˹éÒ
...that Esperanza? Where did she go with all those books and paper? Why did she march so far away? They will not know I have gone away to come back. For the ones I left behind. For the ones who cannot out. (101-2) A second concern, again closely linked to the distinctive social position of Chicanes,... | |
| Geneviève Fabre - 1993 - 216 ˹éÒ
...much... One day I will go away. Friends and neighbors will say, What happened to that Esperanza?... Théy will not know I have gone away to come back. For the ones I left behind. For the ones who cannot out. (110, italics mine) Esperanza is as "out of hér héad" as Rivera's young tyro at the end of Y... | |
| Frances Bartkowski - 1995 - 218 ˹éÒ
...subject. Esperanza's long road to self-authorization or agency is rationalized as a space traversed "for the ones I left behind [,] for the ones who cannot get out" (102). To those around her — relatives and childhood friends — Esperanza will become Mango Street, the... | |
| María Elena de Valdés - 1998 - 300 ˹éÒ
...Where did she go with all those books and paper? Why did she march so far away? They will not know that I have gone away to come back. For the ones I left behind. For the ones who cannot out" (101-102). The liberation of Esperanza through her writing draws from a rich tradition of a writers... | |
| Tomoko Kuribayashi, Julie Ann Tharp - 1998 - 250 ˹éÒ
...where she is from, after successfully venturing out and securing her own space outside Mango Street: "I have gone away to come back. For the ones I left behind. For the ones who cannot out" (110).This movement envisioned by Esperanza suggests spiraling, as opposed to the linearity often... | |
| David William Foster - 1999 - 384 ˹éÒ
...that Esperanza? Where did she go with all those books and paper? Why did she march so far away? They will not know I have gone away to come back. For the ones I left behind. For the ones who cannot come out. (1 IO)12 Perhaps Esperanza will come back one day for Sally, the one "who cannot come out."... | |
| Corinne H. Dale, J. H. E. Paine - 1999 - 200 ˹éÒ
...before the poem" (108). So now, when she does leave Mango Street, it will be because Esperanza has "gone away to come back. For the ones I left behind. For the ones who cannot out" (110). The significance of Esperanza's freedom is defined by those she leaves behind; and the... | |
| James Richard Giles - 2000 - 192 ˹éÒ
...that Esperanza? Where did she go with all those books and paper? Why did she march so far away? They will not know I have gone away to come back. For the ones I left behind. For the ones who cannot out" (p. 110). Writing the stories of her personal struggle certainly, but also of the struggles of... | |
| James Nagel - 2004 - 316 ˹éÒ
...There, she projects, she will not forget the obligation to return to her friends and neighbors: "They will not know I have gone away to come back. For the ones I left behind. For the ones who cannot out" (p. 110). It is a poignant conclusion to this Latina Bildungsroman of a young girl who forms herself,... | |
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