Summery: In the chapter A Rice Sandwich is about the the kids who get to eat in the canteen during lunch because they either live to far away from home or there mom isn't home during the day. Esperanza want to eat in the canteen because she thinks that the special kids get to eat in the canteen so she wants to eat in the canteen because she want to be special and she also thinks that the name even sounds important. So one day she asked her mom to make her a sandwich and write her a note to eat lunch in the canteen. Her mother didn't like the idea of her doing extra work everyday by packing lunches so Esperanza told her mom that she would pack her own lunch. The next day she goes to sister Superior with the note her mom gave her and sister superior said to Esperanza that she doesn't live far enough away from the school to eat on the canteen. Sister Superior was looking for Esperanza house and pointed out the window to an old rundown looking house and asked Esperanza if that was her house and she said yes even though it wasn't her house. After she talked to sister superior she let Esperanza eat lunch for that day in the canteen. Everyone in the canteen was looking at her because she was crying. She found out that eating lunch in the canteen is nothing special.
Characters: Esperanza, Sister Superior, and Esperanza's Mom.
Question: Why does Esperanze lie about where she lives?
1 comment:
She lies about where she lives becasue Esperanze is too ashamed to admit the house she lives is. She dosen't live in a good neighborhood or house and isn't proud that she lives there.
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