Dr. Catalina Estanza Garcia Thesis

According to Mother Teresa, “Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty”. Now imagine being lonely, unwanted, and poor. That is how Esperanza grew up. She lived in a poor neighborhood and was lonely and felt unwanted. She had to navigate through these difficult emotions and challenges with no help, but was able to grow up and become an amazing young woman.

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

Esperanza and her mother made the choice to leave Mexico and go to California to work and escape Tio Luis, which I believe to be a good decision. Before going, Esperanza was spoiled, rich, and quite full of herself, living in a high social class family, and in general thought of herself better than others. At first, she was against leaving everything she knew and loved, but in the end, found herself liking California. Esperanza made new friends, in particular, Isabel, who taught her many things, even though she was younger. She taught her how to appreciate what she had, and how to get a job done. She taught her how to deal with the fact that

Esperanza has a variety of female role models in her life. Many are trapped in abusive relationships, waiting for others to change their live. A female role model or friends seems to be important to Esperanza. Some of the women that are her role models are, Esperanza's great-grandmother, Marin, and Rafaela. Even though she may not have known these women very well they still impacted her life immensely , some showed the way that Esperanza did not want to live in her life to information about boys she found interesting.

She was born in Chicago, Illinois. Cisneros grew up in a Latino family around the 1950s and 1960s. She had a Mexican father and Chicano mother. Cisneros was encouraged by her mother to read and was not insisted with spending all of her time performing classic “women’s work”. Cisneros welcomes her culture with open arms, but acknowledges the unjustness between the genders within. Having experience growing up in a poor neighborhood in a working class family while facing the difficulties created by racism, sexism, and her status, Esperanza longed to leave the barrio. Later, she finds her capability to succeed individually and find a “home with herself”; she worked to recreate some Chicano stereotypes for her community. Cisneros didn’t want to

10. I believe that every marine should definitely read this book. This book tells about true commitment and courage is about there is a lot to learn from this book. I agree with all the points that the author gave in his writing and think that this book should remain in the commandant’s reading list.

Growing up as a child in a poor family, Esperanza Cordero was very ambitious. She was ashamed of her family and her house, and she always had dreams of one day having a beautiful house on a hill, with flowers all around. A house she wouldn't be ashamed to point to and say it was hers. She knew

The first challenge that Esperanza faced as an immigrant was doing chores she did not know how to do. This was a challenge to her because she usually had servants to do these chores for her. She had servants to cook, clean, and feed her. It was clear it was very hard to her because the Miguel a character in the book Esperanza Rising states on page 118 in “How would you know how to sweep a floor?The only thing you ever learned was give orders. This is not your fault.

Ernesto started high school in Cordoba and even though he suffered from severe asthma, he became a member of a rugby team. He was smart and seen by his peers both as thrill-seeker and a leader. Ernesto was a respectable student even though he regularly defied authority. He had aspirations to attend college to study engineering until his grandmother suffered a stroke and died several years later. Due to the emotional impact of these events he decided to become a doctor. He was accepted to Faculty of Medicine at the University of Buenos Aires.

Another role model Esperanza has is her neighbor, Alicia, the most positive influence she meets in the story. Alicia is a strong independent young woman who spends most of her days cooking and cleaning for her family because her mother passed away. “Alicia who inherited her mama’s rolling pin and sleepiness, is young and smart and studies for the first time at university” (31). Esperanza admires how smart Alicia is, and, from her, Esperanza learns that studying hard will better her life. Esperanza understands it will not be easy: “Two trains and a bus, because [Alicia]

During the sixteenth century Spain had control over land in the Caribbeans and America that was ten times the size of Spain. One of the most famous conquerors was a man by the name of Cortes. His first target was the Aztec Empire one of the richest empires in America. After a very bloody battle Cortes successfully conquered the empire “converting” its people to Christianity and taking their gold. From this Cortes became on of the richest men in the world. This event inspired many others to do the same with many choosing the life of a conquistador to find their riches in the new world. The amount of conquistadors started to make Spain worry if they were to try and rule New Spain and that they were killing more Indians instead of converting

Jenni Rivera is not only a Mexican-American singer, but she is a woman who has been through so much that can be considered an example for many people. In a press conference, Jenni said, “I am a woman like any other, and ugly things happen to me like any other woman. The number of times I have fallen down is the number of times I have gotten up”. This quote is saying that it doesn't matter what your situation is... there is always a way to get past it. Anybody can be as strong as Jenni is, and anyone can get through any obstacle in their life. Jenni Rivera is a game changer because she has been through so much and has gotten past it; she is a woman with so many values and so much love.

Have you ever faced a really hard challenge and come back from it. ” Do not be afraid to start over” This is a really good example of what Esperanza ortega did and she had to migrate to America from Mexico. She never gave up she started over in a new place. So I am going to tell you two challenges that Esperanza came across in her life.

Esperanza’s dreams offer her both hope and torment because she does not know whether or not she will have a chance to achieve them at all. Esperanza is a young girl who is a Mexican-American. She lives on Mango Street with her family in their first real house. In this vignette Esperanza is reflecting on her name and how she got it. She talks about how it was her great-grandmother's name and how she was kept from her dreams by marriage: “She looked out the window her whole life, the way so many women sit their sadness on an elbow.

The Rio Grande Valley continues to lead the nations news as world renowned researcher Dr. De La Garza will be inducted into the HSF Alumni hall of fame. De La Garza is a graduate from the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley, where she earned a degree in Biology. Despite earning a prestigious degree, she continued her education at UC Davis, in California where she earned a doctorate in veterinary medicine.