Responsibility In Negi's When I Was Puerto Rican

In When I Was Puerto Rican, sometimes responsibility isn’t chosen but given. The reason for this is because Esmeralda’s mother has been giving Esmeralda, as the oldest, pressure in responsibilities and the mindset of maturity too early on. She has grown accustomed to responsibilities but yet it has been too much for her to handle on her own as stated on page 181 “When I came home, I had wrapped myself in responsibilities mom was about to drop on me. It felt heavy, too big for me.”
Negi from when she was young, has been accustomed to her mother’s demands. She had the responsibility to look after her siblings while her mother had left to work. Negi strongly urged that her brothers and sisters wouldn’t ride Jenny’s bike but since Negi couldn’t