9. Why does Esperanza identify with and admire Alicia?
a) Alicia is intelligent, determined, and in
b) Alicia is also in love with a boy who has
control of her own life
no interest in her
O c) Alicia comes from the same village in I d) Alicia is a gifted poet
Mexico as Esperanza's father

imparadis't in one anothers arms  

the happier eden, shall enjoy their fill  

of bliss on bliss, while i to hell am thrust,  

where neither joy nor love, but fierce desire,  

among our other torments not the least,  

still unfulfill'd with pain of longing pines;  

yet let me not forget what i have gain'd  

from their own mouths; all is not theirs it seems:  

one fatal tree there stands of knowledge call'd,  

forbidden them to taste: knowledge forbidd'n?  

suspicious, reasonless. why should their lord  

envie them that? can it be sin to know,

b

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