The most important factor in why people choose to do something is everyone wants what is best for themselves. People can be so self-absorbed that their main focus is themselves rather than other people. In “Abuela invents zero”, Ortiz-Cofer talks about Connie and how she is embarrassed by her grandmother and she is only thinking about herself and not how anyone else feels. She doesn’t want to be seen with her Abuela thinking that everyone will make fun of her. For example Connie states, “I try to walk far behind them in public so that no one will think we’re together” (Ortiz-Cofer paragraph 4). Connie is saying that she doesn’t want to be noticed when she is with her grandmother even just walking down the street. Another time she wouldn’t