Analysis Of Esperanza Rising By Pam Munoz Rising

Did you know that Esperanza has changed in several different ways throughout the book? If you didn’t know this then you should read this book. Esperanza is very different from the people from the camp they went to. In the beginning Esperanza is selfish when she had gotten on the train. She was also very naive too. But in the middle of the book she changes a lot. She is very nice and giving.

Esperanza is the protagonist of the story. She is very wealthy and gets everything she wants. She struggles through her father’s death and moving to California. Throughout the story she becomes very mature, determined, and a hard worker. She really shocked me because she was a very spoiled princess who became a very strong migrant worker. Ramona Ortega also known as Mama is Esperanza’s mother. They are always together and she helped Esperanza stay strong. Throughout the story she is very strong but becomes very ill and depressed. Miguel was Esperanza’s best friends when they were little kids. He is the child of two servants that work for the family. He wants to become a mechanic and is very determined to reach that goal. They still look after eachother, even though they aren’t very close due to their social status. In the end he is able to bring back Abuelita back from Mexico. Hortensia was a servant that took care of their family. She always looked after Esperanza and was almost like a second mother. She was a Zapotec Indian. She was Alfonso’s wife and the mother of Miguel. Alfonso was a field worker and a very close friend to Papa. He loved the land and took care of the rose garden. He is the main person who helped everyone get to California. Isabel is the daughter of Juan and Josefina. She is only 9 years old but can clean, do laundry, and change diapers. She was the one who taught Esperanza how to do housework. She becomes very close friends with Esperanza. Isabel is the only one who goes to school to learn to read, write, and speak

Thesis statement: Esperanza has a variety of female role models in her life. Many are trapped in abusive relationships, waiting for others to change their lives. Some are actively trying to change things on their own. Through these women and Esperanza’s reactions to them, Cisneros’ shows not only the hardships women face, but also explores their power to overcome them.

Esperanza, a strong- willed girl who dreams big despite her surroundings and restrictions, is the main character in The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros. Esperanza represents the females of her poor and impoverished neighborhood who wish to change and better themselves. She desires both sexuality and autonomy of marriage, hoping to break the typical life cycle of woman in her family and neighborhood. Throughout the novel, she goes through many different changes in search of identity and maturity, seeking self-reliance and interdependence, through insecure ideas such as owning her own house, instead of seeking comfort and in one’s self. Esperanza matures as she begins to see the difference. She evolves from an insecure girl to a

The author conveys the theme identity through the point of view. Since the point of view is through Esperanza’s eyes the reader can see how she is affected by everything she goes through. This was the author can demonstrate how Esperanza’s internally developing. During the novel, Esperanza had to get a job at a young age to help pay for the private school she went to. She felt very out of place and uncomfortable throughout the experience. “...I wouldn’t have minded it except that you got tired after a while and I didn’t know if I could sit down or not…” (House on Mango Street p.54) The audience can see from her point of view how she is feeling. For example, she felt so uncomfortable that she didn’t know when it was acceptable to sit. She would only sit once the other ladies would. This is showing how she is feeling because it’s an example of her

“There is no rose without thorns.” This means for everybody especially immigrants your life is unperfect there is always problems in your life. In our Esperanza Rising Esperanza has her ups and downs in the book. Since the book is historical fiction there was a real Esperanza, the author Pam Munoz Ryan her grandmother was the real Esperanza, so for a great book she wrote about her grandmother. Since her papa’s death, Esperanza had to face many other challenges as an immigrant such as mama getting sick with valley fever, being discriminated, and moving to mexico.

The first issue that many Latino author’s address is the problems in many Latin American countries. In Esperanza Rising Esperanza’s family faces the backlash of the Mexican revolution. Esperanza’s family has land in Mexico which makes them a target for many unhappy citizens in Mexico. Esperanza’s mother has to explain to her that, "the wealthy still own most of the land while some of the poor have not even a garden plot. There are cattle grazing on the big ranches, yet some peasants are forced to eat cats" (Ryan, 25). Eventually Esperanza’s father is murdered by bandit’s and they are forced to leave the dangerous country. Mexico is not the only place with major issues. Young Adult literature often reaches into the historical hardships of other Latin countries, such as the dictators of the Dominican Republican in Julia Alvarez’s novel Before We Were Free. Alvarez talks about the distrust of the police, stating “Back home, [her father] had been tailed by the secret police for months and the family had only narrowly escaped capture their last day on the Island” (Alvarez 233). Young Adult literature reflects this often as a background story, forcing the protagonists into the environment they are in. As well, it frames the families’ mindset and the hardships many have faced before

Esperanza’s gradual establishment of her identity as an independent woman in The House On Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros, is illuminated as she encounters multiple hardships that relate to the unfair expectations put on Hispanics and the mistreatment of women. For example, in the vignettes “Cathy Queen of Cats” and “A Smart Cookie”, Esperanza is faced with two occurrences in which the racist expectations of Hispanics are revealed. Specifically, in “Cathy Queen of Cats”, Esperanza’s first friend Cathy, says that she will be moving away in the next week. Cathy states “...the neighborhood is getting bad.

To begin, Cisneros develops Esperanza’s relationship with her mother and her friend, Alicia, in order to promote the fact that leaving a community like Mango Street is possible. These minor characters do not play a huge role in Esperanza’s life, yet they unknowingly show her that it was, and still is possible to get out. Alicia is significant to Esperanza because she proves that it is possible to make it to college. When Esperanza hears that Alicia “studies for the first time at the university” (Cisneros 31), she sets this in her mind as an example of what she is capable of. Her mom also tells her that she “could’ve been somebody” (90). Esperanza’s mother was talented in many categories, such as singing opera, speaking many languages, and working around the house. However, she dropped out of school at a young age

Esperanza’s home is burnt down right after the death of her father. Her family is overwhelmed at the loss, all except her Uncle who wants Esperanza’s mother to marry him. The changes from this point on are dramatic and Esperanza is pulled along in a tide of world changing events. Her mother and Grandmother try to help her understand that they have to be strong and do what they have to do, to survive. At first, Esperanza feels hopeless and sad for her life, wanting to act as she always has, she resist’s changing. While her outlook on the world stays the same, the world does not. Esperanza’s grandmother tries different ways to make her understand that she will have to adapt to the changes she is facing and overcome them, finally showing her with an unfinished blanket with a zigzag pattern. Her Grandmother explains that life is full of ups and downs, just like the blanket she is teaching her to

“There is no rose with a thorn.” In the book a young Mexican girl face many challenge in her journey. Do the great depress immigrant served to move to state and leave everything behind.The young Mexican girl is called Esperanza Ortega from Esperanza rising by Pam Munoz Ryan is no different Mexican faced discrimination because the way them look. Although Esperanza many challenge were like discrimination and taking care of Mama become mama had Valley Fever.

In the novel, Esperanza Rising, Esperanza lives this fairy tale life. She can get what she wants whenever she wants. Esperanza had a close to perfect life; until tragedy strikes. One day her Papa got struck and killed by bandict that thought that all the wealthy were ruthless. Who would've known that day would turn her whole life around. When Papa died, her callous uncle lusi demanded Mama to married him. Tio luis was not found of Mama rejection, so he began to threaten Esperanza and her family. With Esperanza and her Mother afraid to say in Mexico with Uncle Louis, them and a couple of their slaves, Miguel Hortensia and Alfonso migrated to California. Esperanza was very upset to leave her beloved Abuelita behind at Mexico. Let’s just say

In the novel, Esperanza Rising written by Pam Munoz Ryan, character foil is a valuable literary device the author uses to add to and deepen the plot of narrative which illuminates the unique plight of Mexican-American laborers during the Great Depression. Commonly used in character development to draw attention to the disparities between two natures that have diverse values and independent goals; the foil is not always the relationship between protagonist and antagonist, in fact, it not always the antagonist. The use of foil can also be applied to several characters at once, as well as, dialogue, locations, imageries, relationships, and a host of other possibilities. The main purpose is to establish a principal character essential to the plot that enables the author to highlight specific characteristics in the main character. The literary device can be used to underscore opposite qualities in major characters such as good versus bad and because they are counterparts, it’s easier for readers to notice their attributes; it can also highlight the similarities amongst them. “The term “foil” came into its current usage as a literary device from the concept of putting tin foil behind a gemstone to make it look more brilliant. The foil character works in the same way—to make the protagonist seem more incredible, or, adversely, to make his or her faults more obvious” as exhibited between the characterizations of

Esperanza Rising tells a remarkable story and does a fantastic job blending fact with fiction. The story does a wonderful job of telling the story of how a child who was raised rich and slightly- spoiled must move to a new country and have nothing. While reading the book, the setting reminded me of the several migrant workers I have meet thought the years, while helping my grandmother work in the green bean field when I was little. This book reminded me of several stories of workers who lived a lavished life but moved due to the Mexican Revolution. They wanted to keep their families safe and left everything behind to come to the Unites States. While some of them could stay, others were deported back to Mexico and away from their families. This

The whole book is quite a long one, so here’s a summary or synopsis of the book, Esperanza starts out in Mexico living a happy life and with her father’s help is able to hear the Earth’s heartbeat, however after realising her father has been killed, both of the families tios want to do something however it isn’t friendly, Tio Luis and Tio March however, they want to Esperanza’s mother to marry Tio Luis and threatened to send Esperanza to a boarding school. However Esperanza’s mother declined the offer, soon after the house of Esperanza’s family is burnt down, Esperanza’s mother is given a last chance to accept the offer from both tios, she accepts, but lied, instead the family flees to the United States of America in order to escape Tio Luis and Tio Marco,