What indicates Esperanza is still a child?

What indicates Esperanza is still a child? What is the Old Woman with so many children's situation? Her husband left her and she has a lot of kid she struggles to control. What happened at the end of There Was an Old Woman She Had So Many Children She Didn't Know What to Do?

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Also, what does threw a sack over her head and carried her off mean?

This is supposed to be bad luck, according to the Chinese, but Esperanza thinks it is a "Chinese lie," because Chinese people, like Mexicans, don't like strong women. Esperanza's great-grandmother would not marry, but was stolen away by her great-grandfather, who threw a sack over her head and forced her to marry him. Then, why does esperanza say that she has her grandmother's name but doesn't want to inherit her place by the window? What does Esperanza mean by "I have inherited her name, but I don't want to inherit her place by the window" according to the "My Name" vignette? Esperanza feels that her great-grandmother didn't live her best life and Esperanza wants to end up living her best life that she possibly could.

Why might the narrator call her great grandmother a wild horse of a woman?

The narrator is named after her great-grandmother, a "wild horse of a woman" who refused to get married until the narrator's grandfather carried her off by force (4.3). The story goes that great-grandma never forgave her captor, and spent her whole life looking out the window longingly. Subsequently, what is the significance of the narrator wanting to be a red balloon? Esperanza describes herself as a red balloon before she has made any friends in her neighborhood. Until she has a best friends she can share her secrets with and who will understand her jokes, she believes she will be this balloon. The balloon suggests she is floating and feels isolated.

Correspondingly, what does esperanza symbolize?

Esperanza is a Spanish word that means hope or expectation, according to Spanish Dict. Literally, "some hope!"