Esperanza Rising is the title of the book. The author of the book is Pam Munoz Ryan. The setting takes place in 1924 in Mexico. The city is called Aguascalientes. It takes place after the Mexican revolution. Mexico didn’t have independence yet.
The main characters are Esperanza, Tio Luis, Mama(Ramona), Miguel, and Abuelita. Esperanza's is a protagonist with an ungrateful and spoil personality her goal was to get abuelita to the camp. Tio Luiz, he's the antagonist and his personality is greedy and jealous and his goal was to marry mama and send Esperanza to boarding school. Mama’s personality is sweet and kind her goal was for Esperanza to have everything she wanted. Miguel’s personality is calm and gentle. His goal was to make his family’s life is wise and courageous. Her goal was to keep her family together.
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Tio Luis and his brother get control of papa’s money and land because of a loophole in papa’s will. The conflict is internal between Esperanza and Tio Luis. Tio Luis kept asking mama to marry him but she kept refusing. Esperanza, Mama and Miguel's moved to a camp in Los Angeles to escape Tio Luis and his brother. Esperanza had to learn to live as a migrant worker in California. Esperanza worked hard to save money to bring Abuelita to California. Abuelita stayed behind because she hurt her ankle while trying to escape the fire. There is one theme and that is when everyone worked hard except for Esperanza. She swept the patio floor. Miguel worked sunrise to sundown in the fields. Mama and Hortensia worked in the shed Esperanza couldn’t work there because she was too