In her quest for her “home” Esperanza believes she wants a house on a hill. This is because “People who live on hills sleep so close to the stars they forget those of us who live too much on earth.” Only Esperanza promises to be different. Esperanza most likely believes the statement about these people being too close to the sky to be true because she associates a house on a hill with luxury, though that is not empirically true. Taking from an earlier vignette, Darius & the Clouds, it is plausible to assume that Mango Street is low in the ground. Throughout that vignette, Esperanza tells the reader that “you can never have too much sky,” and “sky can keep you safe when you are sad.” She even goes so far as to call it wise to say that one cloud is God, conveying her almost idolization of the sky and the lack thereof on Mango Street. In her mind, Mango Street is associated with poverty and dissatisfaction. Thus, though the house on a hill is not always a great house, somewhere she could see open sky all around, somewhere she could get “drunk on sky” would be a luxurious house to her. The meaning of the quote itself suggests that the rich are not to apt to help out the poor, something Esperanza intends to do if she becomes more fortunate, a foreshadowing of her future. The statement is universal and is indicative of Esperanza’s train of thought.