Significance of Trees in The House on Mango Street

In The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros, there are many symbols scattered throughout the book. Last week we focused on windows, but another symbol i noticed in this book were trees. Trees were mentioned a couple of times in The House on Mango Street and it seems like they are used to represent Ezperanza's feelings of not fitting in and feeling like she doesn't belong.
In one of the vignettes, Esperanza describes the trees as being tall and skinny and not belonging where they are, but they're there anyways. She relates this back to herself and you can tell that she feels out of place in her society, where she's growing up and that she feels like she is just living there, but she doesn't really belong there, like the trees.
Esperanza also states, "I am the only one that understand them" and they are the only ones that understand me. This is another quote that shows that Esperanza feels like she doesn't belong because she is saying that nobody truly understands her besides the trees. This shows that she feels alone and that she can not exactly find anyone where she lives who can relate to her or make her feel like she is important or that she actually belongs.
She also makes a comment about her sister having no respect for the trees and not recognizing them and their significance. It isn't very clear or really mentioned in this vignette, but it makes me wonder if this is how she feels about herself. I wonder if she feels unnoticed and/or unappreciated by the people around her because she does mention how the trees are the only ones who understand her so, this makes me think that another commonality she may share with these long, skinny trees is that people don't recognize the significance in her, similarly to her sister not noticing the true beauty that Esperanza sees in the trees around her.

All in all, it seems to me that these trees mentioned throughout The House on Mango Street are used to symbolize the main character Esperanza's feelings of not belonging or fitting in in the society in which she lives in. I also infer that she may also feel unnoticed or unappreciated by the people around her, however I am not completely sure.