"You can go and visit heaven. What? You see a room just like the first one, the same table, and the same pot of stew, the same spoons as long as a sponge mop. But these people are all happy and fat."

"You can go and visit heaven. What? You see a room just like the first one, the same table, and the same pot of stew, the same spoons as long as a sponge mop. But these people are all happy and fat." - page 113

Estevan is telling a "wild indian story about heaven and hell" to the Parson's, Lou Ann, and Taylor. He explains how in hell there are a hole bunch of people sitting around "jibbering and jabbering" starving to eat a delicious pot of stew that God has made. But these people can't eat the stew because their spoons are as long as a sponge mop. But the people in heaven are in the same room sitting around having a good time with the same stew and the same spoons as long as the sponge mop but they are happy and fat. The people in heaven are satisfied and well fed, and the people in hell are suffering and starving. This story Estevan tells is important because it comes from his and Esperanza's culture and even Turtle's. And maybe he is trying to say that Taylor as a big chance of being a satisfied person in heaven by being the good person she is.