 | Renato Rosaldo - 1993 - 292 ˹éÒ
...with the keys in the ignition. Ready to take you where?" (p. 47). In a later story, she is bursting: "Everything is holding its breath inside me. Everything...a boy around my neck and the wind under my skirt" (p. 70). Esperanza interweaves her sexuality, her rounding hips, and images of automobiles. Not unlike... | |
 | Héctor Calderón, José David Saldívar - 1991 - 312 ˹éÒ
...with the keys in the ignition. Ready to take you where?" (47). In a later story Esperanza is bursting: "Everything is holding its breath inside me. Everything...around my neck and the wind under my skirt" (70). In describing her coming of age Esperanza interweaves her sexuality, her rounding hips, and automobiles.... | |
 | Tomoko Kuribayashi, Julie Ann Tharp - 1998 - 250 ˹éÒ
...Esperanza wishes she could be as bold as the girl, Lois. "Everything is holding its breath inside me. ... I want to sit out bad at night, a boy around my neck and the wind under my skirt" (73).This desire on the young narrator's part and her daring to make an explicit statement about it... | |
 | Corinne H. Dale, J. H. E. Paine - 1999 - 200 ˹éÒ
...both resists and wants to be part of the adult world: "Everything is holding its breath inside me. ... I want to be all new and shiny. I want to sit out...a boy around my neck and the wind under my skirt. Not this way, every evening talking to the trees, leaning out my window, imagining what I can't see"... | |
 | Sonia Saldívar-Hull - 2000 - 232 ˹éÒ
...disapproval of Sire and Lois means nothing to Esperanza, who articulates her desires in a child's language: "Everything is holding its breath inside me. Everything...a boy around my neck and the wind under my skirt. Not this way, every evening talking to the trees as I lean way out my window imagining what I can't... | |
 | James Nagel - 2004 - 316 ˹éÒ
...young man in the neighborhood, but she is otherwise explicit about her burgeoning interest in sex: "I want to be all new and shiny. I want to sit out...a boy around my neck and the wind under my skirt" (p. 73). Despite her mother's admonition about girls "that go into alleys," Esperanza wants her forming... | |
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Everything is holding its breath inside me. Everything is waiting to explode like Christmas. I want to be all new and shiny. I want to sit out bad at night, a boy around my neck and the wind under my skirt. 