... be her journal. Grace uses her journal as the absolute. It is her form of reality. She feels dependant with her book because it allows her to escape from reality, which is her father's abusive acts and chaotic temper, and the poverty she currently lives in. her life resembles the main character Esperanza in a book called "The house on Mango Street". Esperanza also lived in poverty and hoped ... that there was a method of escaping it. In the movie, her form ... of freedom would have been when she killed herself. She realized that she was raped ... ...

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• Grade Level: High School