Break the barrier

I thought it was very interesting how prevalent all of the excerpts portrayed patriarchy within society and it dominates Esperanza life in how she thinks, feels, and reacts in all her situations, as well as the underlying precepts of how woman really do have that "semiotic language," and "multicultural feminism," in which it is clear that Experanza is experiencing because she doesn't feel like she shouldn't have to conform and wants to be that "free spirit" that her Grandmother once was and not to have a "sack thrown over her head" or be subject to the oppression that the patriarchal society inflicts on woman. She also conveys this to the audience when she repeatedly says that Nenny has the wrong mindset or doesn't think for herself (jumping rope). Esperanza shows us that she is a girl/woman in a typical patriarchy societal situation: she conforms because she doesn't want to be rejected, she has ideas of her own and wants to step outside to form her own identity, but is pressured by peers and self-esteem issues that everyone presses upon her, and consequently, is subject to the traditional culture.
I think the women in the end have a strong impact on Esperanza and are the literally analogy to the fact that she can make "a wish" and that she has that right to form her own identity not based on the patriarchy of society. They also say that it is important that she "comes back for others" which i thought meant in hopes of breaking some of those barriers that woman face in society and bringing others with her. I took out from when they said "you can't forget who you really are" that they were telling her that those intentions and desires of her true identity, that has always been dominated by the traditional ideology, can and should be uncovered and that she can be where and who she has always wanted to be.