On the weekends the family visits these houses and dreams about moving there.
Bums in the attic.
When bums pass by she will invite them in and let them stay in her attic because she knows what it s like to not have a house.
Her papa teases her for being stuck up and thinking herself too old to go on such family outings.
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The poor staying in esperanza s attic will not be rats as her dinner guests mistake them for but bums yet that word has no derogatory connotations readers sense for esperanza.
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When her family goes to the hills on sundays esperanza never wants to go.
However there are a fair amount of unnamed characters such as the bums in the attic and the friends of hers that ask about them.
Esperanza has stopped going with her family.
It is a simple acknowledgment that esperanza s attic guests as opposed to her dinner table guests one could surmise are poor and yet deserve acceptance and welcome.
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Her guests will think rats are squeaking in the attic but esperanza will happily tell them it s bums.
Esperanza resolves to have a nice house someday but to never forget where she came from.