How does the repetition of “we’re going to” contribute to the theme?
A It shows how much the girls do together, highlighting their companionship.
B It suggests that the girls have big plans, but they rarely follow through on them.
C It shows that the girls have big plans for the future, highlighting their ambition.
D It emphasizes the narrator’s role as the leader, suggesting that she tells Lucy what to do.
When I get home Abuelita will say, Didn’t I tell you? and I’ll get it because I was
supposed to wear this dress again tomorrow. But first I’m going to jump off an old
pee-stained mattress in the Anguiano yard. I’m going to scratch your mosquito bites,
Lucy, so they’ll itch you, then put Mercurochrome smiley faces on them. We’re
going to trade shoes and wear them on our hands. We’re going to walk over to
Janey Ortiz’s house and say, We’re never ever going to be your friend again
forever! We’re going to run home backwards and we’re going to run home
frontwards, look twice under the house where the rats hide and I’ll stick one foot in
there because you dared me, sky so blue and heaven inside those white clouds.
I’m going to peel a scab from my knee and eat it, sneeze on the cat, give you
three M & M’s I’ve been saving for you since yesterday, comb your hair with my
fingers and braid it into teeny-tiny braids real pretty. We’re going to wave to a lady
we don’t know on the bus. Hello! I’m going to somersault on the rail of the front
porch even though my chones show. And cut paper dolls we draw ourselves, and
color in their clothes with crayons, my arm around your neck.
