Dear Esperanza,

I want to start off by telling you that the choices that you made at the beginning of the novel were very dumb, for example whenever you got in the Cadillac with Louie and his cousins, could you not make the connection that a young boy in a not so great neighborhood would have a nice car? I mean              figuring that one out wasn’t exactly rocket science, but of course you were oblivious to the fact that he stole it. Another dumb thing that you didn’t think anything of at the time, was the Tarzan swinging competition. In what way would that ever have been a good idea? Along with all the dumb things that you did, there were also many things that you did right, for example when Rachel and Lucy were making fun of Nenny for being a dumb little girl, you defended her, exactly what an older sibling is meant to do. Another thing that I admire about you, is that you were always thinking about a better place, like your own house not on Mango Street. Through thinking like you did you were able to overcome many obstacles and get to the place that you wanted to be, which is another thing for me to be admirable of.  Overall, you were a very interesting person tom read about,

Sincerely Tyler