The story Esperanza Rising is by Pam Munoz Ryan. This story is about a girl who started off rich, but later has to start adapting her new life as a peasant.
In the beginning Esperanza has a happy life. She live with her father, mother, grandma and some servant their family considered as a friend. They lived on a ranch her father owned in Aguascalientes, Mexico. Esperanza was spoiled and she gets whatever she wanted since her father was the ranch owner, and he was very rich. It was almost Esperanzas birthday when her father died. Her family was sad. Later, Esperanza had a tough time because her uncle asked her mother to marry him but her mother refused so he burned their house. They have nothing the moment and their only option is to go to
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She finds out that her mother is sick and she has to pay for the medical bills every month, so she now have to work. She also need to save up to pay for her grandma’s travel to America. When Esperanza is working, strickers came together to strike for higher wages. This scared Esperanza because the immigrants officials came and started arresting people because they were causing trouble. Ending up they didn't arrest the workers they only came to arrest the strickers. Esperanza was glad they didn't arrest her and the workers. When she got home Miguel lost his job and Esperanza asked why he didn't argue with his boss and then the got into a fight which changed their friendship. A few days later mama got better and she came home. Esperanza was glad that her mother got well. Esperanza wanted to show mama her savings but it was gone. Esperanza suspects it was Miguel who who took the money so she was furious at him. The next day they got a message from Miguel to meet them at Los Angeles. When she arrived there she was speechless, her grandma has come to California. Esperanza was happy. When she got home she told her grandma about her life at California and she told her how she