nny and me" (Cisneros 223).
This, then, is the sort of life the family leads--many children and many moves from one place to another. The moves are probably brought about by different problems, but the last move is brought about because the water pipes broke and the landlord refused to fix them. The family had lived in apartments, and now it moved to a house. The girl obviously sees this as a good thing and as a step up, into "a real house that would be ours for always so we wouldn't have to move each year" (Cisneros 223). In this line we can see the hope the girl has for a permanent residence and to stop moving from place to place, and this makes it all the more powerful when she discovers that this is not the case and that the family will have to continu
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