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The chapter is generally Marin answering questions from the police. At a dance that night she had met a boyfriend named Geraldo, and they danced together. After he left, Geraldo was killed in a hit-and-run auto accident. He spoke no English, and he died considering just an intern was working in the emergency room that nighttime, and no surgeon came to tend to him. Marin emphasizes how she didn't know anything near Geraldo, non even his final name.

This chapter offers more social criticism of the prejudice against Chicanos, as Geraldo is constantly emphasized as a "nobody," non good enough to even be treated by a doctor when badly injured. In narrating the section, Esperanza emphasizes Geraldo's lack of English in affecting his fate, which shows that she is learning the powerlessness of lacking language.

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Esperanza muses most Geraldo, who to the police and doctors was "only another wetback." She imagines his life of shabby apartments and jobs, and how he left his domicile, and how his family unit back in Mexico will never know what happened to him.

Esperanza again shows that she is growing in her ability to empathize with others, and also that she at present understands some of the racial prejudice she must overcome.

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