Enrique worked hard and saved enough to hire a smuggler to move Maria Isabel to the United States then Jasmin later joined
Esperanza had a perfect life, no struggles, and no worries. Esperanza had servants for her, she was clueless on chores and bathing herself. Esperanza wore fancy dress each day and she she 12 at that time it was about to be her 13 birthday when everything changed. Soon after, tragedy struck Esperanza lost everything she had in Aguascalientes. This caused her to change to because she wasn’t a rich person.
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 author's attitude towards the boys in this novel is ignorant and emotional. This novel is composed of vignettes that show Esperanza learn about the true power of language and the struggle for self- definition. While befriending Sally, she learns more about boys and matures sexually. During the year, Esperanza develops her first crush and even endures sexual assault. From this, her first impression and ignorance over the topic of boys and having the thought process that girls and boys live in different worlds, awakens Esperanza and teaches her an important lesson and becomes to an eyeopening experience.
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.
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.
Still Esperanza does not get what is going on at this point. She is still so naïve and innocent. Sometimes the reader forgets how young she actually is because of the things she is going through at such a young age. Her mind and her decisions are moving at a faster pace, but she is still so blind to the world.
Esperanza finds out that she needs to become promiscuous in order to be popular like Sally and she’s not comfortable with that idea. Later on Sally and Esperanza go to the carnival, Sally leaves her alone to go with a boy. Esperanza is now by herself vulnerable and ends up getting raped. She realizes that boys are not what she thought they were, so she decides to focus on herself. Esperanza changes what she thought she wanted for the future.
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.
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.
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”
Esperanza is not proud of her heritage, she even wants to change her name. Her friend she meets,
