The symbolism of falling is of feeling, emotion, failure, and also hope. There were examples on such things for page 26-27 Marin, Page 29-30 There Was An Old Woman She Had So Many Children She Didn’t Know What to Do, and lastly on page 92-93 What Sally said. For Marin, it was about a person who Ezperanza sort of enjoyed having in her life but knew she could not stay there permanently because Marin aunt (who she was staying with) thought she was too much trouble. But for the quote, it represents failure, hope, and somewhat the emotion love. But for people to understand you need to read the whole content is needed to be read for people to understand but here it is:
“Marin, under the streetlight, dancing by herself, is singing the same song somewhere. I know. Is waiting for a car to stop, a star to fall, someone to change her life.”
The quote meaning for me, is hope, to hope that someone could take her away from the life she has been given currently but knew it was a long shot but she still hoped for it and wished it as it said “...someone to change her life.” This quote just basically explains the rest.
Another reason as to why falling represents feeling, emotion, failure, and also hope, is also in There Was An Old Woman She Had So Many Children She Didn’t Know What to Do. In this vignette it represents failure as the children do not have any future at all as it seems and I think one died for being stupid and playing on the wall. Though the failure really represents the mom as her life was completely ruin by men just by knocking her up and then leaving and as a result, affected her children:
“…nobody looked up not once the day Angel Vargas learned to fly and dropped from the sky like a sugar donut, just like a falling star, and exploded down to earth without even an “Oh.”
For the quote, it means failure, the failure to comply with society as the people of Ezperanza neighborhood just got tired of these kids because they were obnoxious and rude. Why you may ask, it’s because the mom couldn’t really be there for the kids and so couldn’t really teach them right from wrong adding onto the failures.
The 3rd thing as to why falling represented all that other stuff above was this other vignette called What Sally Said which was about an abused child in terms of “being hit like an animal.” But what’s worse is that the Dad forces her daughter to lie about being hit and so she says she “falls” which is the symbolic word in the vignette. But this one specifically meant something more, as such I guess failure as the situation seemed to be similar to the 2nd example of vignette. But here is the quote.
“A girl that big, a girl who comes in with her pretty face all beaten and black can’t be falling off the stairs.”
In this one it was sort of hard to understand it but I got it after comparing all of the falling and that is why I categorized it under failure. Reason is because Sally was beaten and coming to school all bruised, which was enough to tell that this treatment was unfair, and just a lost cause as no one could help her.
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