No Speak English: Summary

   
  

   In this vignette it depicts the struggles of a woman getting tied down by a man. This is similar to Esperanza's great grandmother shown in the earlier passage “My Name.” "Mamacita,” the central character in No Speak English just came to the country. Before her arrival, her husband was struggling with their baby and juggling two jobs to get "Mamacita" to the U.S. While she’s in the U.S her husband works all day and she sits at home waiting for his return with her child, staring out the window. Mamacita's son is described to break her heart because he already speaks English, while she can only say "No speak English." In the text it states she sits by the window crying because she was homesick, this is shown when the author says “She sits all day by the window and plays the Spanish radio show and sings all the homesick songs about her country in a voice that sounds like a seagull." This idea is shown by Mamacita staring out the window to the street, imaging what she can't have.


-Josh R.-