In the novel , Esperanza Rising, written by Pam Munoz Ryan , the reader meets a spoiled girl whose life went through many challenges. Throughout the novel Esperanza went from a spoiled brat to an anger frustrated girl and ended the story as a happy person. Esperanza thought her life was always going to be perfect, but it wasn’t how she expected. In the beginning , Esperanza was soiled girl that lives in Aguascalientes,Mexico. Esperanza was spoiled because her Papa was the owner of El Rancho de Las Rosas.
They left Guatemala because they wanted to get a better life. They were apart of a teachers union, they're headquarters were raided by the government because unions were considered communist. “She was taken in a raid on their neighborhood in which Esperanza’s brother and two friends were killed. They were members of Estevan’s teachers’ union. He told me in what condition they had found the bodies."
This book was Pam Muñoz Ryan 's 13th book ever published out of 40. In the book, Esperanza Rising, it describes how there are many ups and downs during your life but to never be afraid to start over. The author of this book, Pam Muñoz Ryan, tells the main character 's story in the best way possible. Pam Muñoz Ryan wrote this book so it would have an impact on everyone who read it.
The setting of the novel is a poor latino neighborhood in the suburbs of Chicago during the 1980s. All of Esperanza’s vignettes take place in a time- span of about one year. Esperanza reflects back onto memories of some of her older, previous houses but for the most part, the majority of her vignettes are written memories from her house on Mango Street. Esperanza narrates her own stories, struggles, and observations as she grows up trying to find her place in the world.
During my Explore Chicago class, we were able to go to the play "Esperanza Rising” in the Merle Reskin Theatre. The play tells the reality of many Mexicans farm workers who came to the United States and what they went through in California. The play was really interesting since it presented various topics we had studied this quarter in our Explore Class. The main idea of the play was the life that these immigrants came to have when they reached the United States, in the classroom we discuss what Mexicans, Puerto Ricans, etc., have to go through in the United States and how they are trying to make something out of themselves.
“My Name” Esperanza has a problem. Esperanza doesn’t like her name she was named after her grandmother who looked out if a window most of her life. The grandmother “was a wild horse”. As the story tells the reader that she would not marry until a man threw a sack over her head,then carried her.
Esperanza’s interest is writing poem, appears in many of the chapters where it explains a way of bonding with her community by sharing poems with one another. Because Esperanza has become a writer her observations strengthen throughout the novel. One example of how she matures through writing is in the beginning of the book she told stories that were obviously meant for a younger audiences but through the middle of the book she started to use more observation based upon what she saw which helped develop the story more for the reader. This change shows that she is becoming an artist, and also that she is starting to distance herself from her community, since she focuses more on capturing experiences than living through them, she starts to further her self from interaction and focuses more on observation of the people around her. By the end of The House on Mango Street, she knows that she underwent a huge transformation and her relationship with mango st is starting to weaken.
According to CDC (Centers of Disease Control and Prevention), “Valley Fever is not contagious. Valley Fever is caused by fungus that lives in the environment. Symptoms of Valley Fever are usually similar to the flu.” In the novel Esperanza Rising by Pam Munoz Ryan, valley fever is a crucial event. Valley fever affected people in the 1930s, was used throughout the novel, and was depicted correctly by the author.
This tactic seems to be rooted in making her mother feel like Esperanza feels unloved, which to a child’s mind will make the adult in question bestow gifts and reassurance upon the child to prove their love. In Esperanza’s case, this comes in the form of a note to eat with the “special”
They assume that she does not leave the house because of that. The reality according to Esperanza is that she does not leave the house because she misses Mexico and does not know English. Mamacita misses a home, yet is constantly arguing with her husband because she is home. She struggles with accepting her home and does not realize that her home is where she is. Even though she misses Mexico and does not know English, she can still leave her house.
“In the meantime they’ll just have to move a little farther north from Mango Street, a little farther away every time people like us keep moving in (Cisneros 13).” This quote is a significant part of the story because it shows how Esperanza truly feels about herself and her family. She thinks that because she is poor and lives and a bad neighborhood people move away from her family. Esperanza doesn’t think very much of her or her family at all. She thinks that it is because of their race that people do not want to be near them.
In Society, women face struggles when it comes to their gender, but they have also struggled in working during hard times and what they want to do. Many stereotypes have been made about women due to them working and women having to struggle with the hardships of work. Women have struggled with these challenges for many years, but the great depression made it harder for them. Women back in that period had a hard life staying home and caring for their children while men went out looking for a job or working hard enough to buy at least a piece of bread. Although men had these hardships, what would have it been for a single mom during this terrible period?
Bertha was a more heavy set mexican lady, while pablo was more of a muscular person and may was a beautiful caucasian woman that carried the baby through the traveling, but soon was lost somewhere along the trails on the travels. A black family found the baby, while the parents were unknown as well as the name of the baby. The baby at this time was 2 years old, approx considering that they didn’t have birth certificates back then as well as they didn’t have any hints of who the baby belonged to. So what they did was they took the baby to the closest hosptial to see if they could get some money for turning in the baby, which according to my research is unknown but the baby was kept in a foster/orphanage to live in.
If Esperanza was older then she would suspect something, especially when they are someone she have never saw before, but instead Esperanza believe them wholeheartedly. Showing that her young mind haven’t been exposed to the deviousness of the world, and that she will believe what other says. Luckily for Esperanza, Lucy and Rachel were being honest,
An old Victorian house was remodeled and modernized for Selena to stay when Richard was away on trips. Selena always returned to her home by the mines when Richard was in town, where they spent time together. During one of Richard’s frequent trips with his family, this one in France to celebrate his wife’s birthday, Miguel Contreras, who worked as Selena’s yard boy, stopped to tell her that he would not be able to work that day because he had to dig a
