Blog Post #3: Five-Star Quote

 

“You can never have too much sky. You can fall asleep and wake up drunk on sky, and sky can keep you safe when you are sad. Here there is too much sadness and not enough sky.(33)”

Here’s a profound statement about life and what Esperanza thinks about it. When she says sky, she really means heaven. She’s saying that there’s too much earth in life and not enough heaven. A reason she may feel this way is because of the lifestyle she has. She is deeply in poverty, a minority that is frequently discriminated against, and she also describes herself as a girl that is not physically attractive. All three of these things cause an unhappy life for Esperanza which in turn causes her to think “there is too much sadness and not enough sky.” Esperanza wants to trade in all the negative parts of her life just so she can get some more sky.

I can’t personally relate to why she would say this because I don’t have the same problems that she does, and hers are undoubtly worse. I don’t look up at the sky and think I need more of it,but Esperanza must need a release in life when things get tough. She needs a way to escape all of her problems and the sky is always there for her.