Answer: Esperanza and Marin are both friends and Esperanza admires her. They both have dreams to live in big houses but Marin wants to get a house by marrying a man and Esperanza wants to achieve that goal herself.
Explanation:
Examples of sentences with the structure (not) as... as:
His face is not as round as Tom´s.
Her eyes are not as big as mine.
His nose is as turned-up as his mother´s.
Mary´s hair is as curly as her friend´s.
The policeman is as angry as the car driver.
The TV host is not as bored as the audience.
The children are as happy as their grandparents.
Mrs. Flowers is being described quite positively here as the adjective 'benign' simple means warm-hearted or kind. and graceful connotes a sense of elegancy. She is smiling warmly and genuinely.
Big to small
real gun vs nerf gun
job vs chores
