The Color Of Shame Colors can portray many things and set certain moods. Yellow can mean happiness and cheerfulness while blue is a calming and relaxing color. It depends on how the color is used. For example, yellow can also be used as a sign of caution. Sandra Cisneros uses the color red in many of her metaphors to emphasize a sense of shame and regret. Cisneros’s character Esperanza greatly dislikes her house on …showed first 75 words of 513 total…

…showed last 75 words of 513 total…her. She emphasizes the color of the lips by repeating it twice, signifying its importance. The color red signifies the shame Esperanza felt over certain events in her life. These are things she wished she could change but knew she could not. Red is a color that jumps out at you and catches your attention just as these events stand out in Esperanza’s memory. The shameful times that she regrets are marked in red.