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Read vignettes 33 to 36. 

Then answer the following questions: 

33. How does Cisneros present Minerva as trapped within a cycle of poverty and abuse? 

34. How is the issue of social class explored within this short vignette? 

35. How might Esperanza's declaration of a "quiet war" been influenced by the women in her community? 

36. Esperanza's mother seems to have a happy marriage and family, compared to many of the other women described. Yet what has she been trapped by in society?