Foreshadowing Analysis 30-53
There are several instances of foreshadowing in this range, mainly predicting things related to sexuality, and the way this story is going, it's going to be abuse. At the end of a chapter in which Esperanza dances with her uncle, the book mentions the fact that a young adult man was watching her dance, and the aside is somewhat ominous. In another chapter, Esperanza and her friends are discussing hips, for quite a while. The sort of innocent comments about sexuality that are being made in this chapter continue to cement the suspicion that something very nasty is going to happen at some point.