Esperanza As A Cultural Melting Pot

First of all, why did Esperanza Ortega move to America in the first place?Well, her Papa had died from bandites, so Tio Luis (Papa’s brother,) proposes to mama, and burns the house, so they are forced to move to America to escape him!Since Esperanza was an immigrant,

The first challenge Esperanza faced as an immigrant was Mama getting sick with Valley Fever from the dust storms. Dust storms often happen during this time period. If someone like Mama is not immune to the dust they get sick.

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

As Esperanza, her Mom, and her servants flee from Mexico to California, it is as if they are leaving the familiar, sweet and tasty center of her life to an unknown world. As her old life comes to an end, she sees, “nothing but a path of splattered figs trailing behind them. ”(p.57) When Esperanza sees these figs she knows that she might not ever return to her home again. She is emotionally frustrated and apprehensive, even though, “Sadness and anger tangled in Esperanza’s stomach as she started to leave”(p.56), she is ready to move on to better

In the book Esperanza Rising by Pam Munoz Ryan, Esperanza is the main character who is the protagonist. Esperanza is a thirteen-year-old child that has been faced with more tragic events from the age of nine to thirteen than some may experience their whole life time. Her character is very smart, determined, and compassionate just like some of the kids you may know. The author does a great job with allowing the reader to get inside Esperanza’s head to understand her thinking and logic. The author uses Esperanza life to encourage children who may be going through some of the same experience, that they could make it through to. Although Esperanza is just a normal kid trying to have fun, the constant tragic events in her life forces her to mature instantly becoming a strong young adult. This paper will discuss how Esperanza grew up and some of Esperanza reactions that shows her growth in maturity, while exploring some of the conflicts Esperanza experienced that causes her to change her thinking.

Esperanza rising takes place in 1930 in the country of mexico.pam Munoz Ryan opens the novel in the town of Rachncho de Las Rosas in Aguascalientes Mexico. The story starts by telling you who Esperanze is .she is a 12 year old who lives a wealth life on her family vineyard farm with her papa, mother, and abuelita. Esperanze is very close to her papa. Her papa has dedicated to his vineyards and he try to show esperanze to listen to the earth. Esperanze had a big birthday coming up. it was the day of her 13 birthday esperanze went to pick rosé and got a thorn stuck in her figure. When esperanze took the thorn out the wound would not stop bleeding. in the three culture that means bad luck. That next morning espreanze wok up and it was the day of her 13 birthday. And every birthday esperanze woke up to her papa and the servants singing feliz cumpleanos (happy birthday) to her out her window. But that day esperanze didn’t wake up to that. Then a few minutes later she got bad news. Her father had been killed by the bandits. Papas stepbrothers tio luis and tio marco were both really powerful men in the town Aguascalientes. They tried to take over the land from mama, esperanze and abuelita. But mama was not having. The laware came and told mama that papa had given the land to the step brothers if he had every dies .tioi luis offered to married mama so they could still live on the land. But mama was noting going to marry him just to stay on the land when she didn’t

"She sits at become afraid to go outside". The leave home, she would need permission. She evolves from a victim of child abuse to a slave-like wife. Esperanza sees this despair throughout her story.

Mexican immigrants had to leave their houses, work in the fields and move to a new country. In “ Esperanza Rising By: Pam Munoz Ryan” she has all these mountains and her life is just so perfect. But when Papa left, they found him dead, Esperanza has all these valleys. Esperanza faced many challenges as an immigrant, her hardest ones were doing chores and Mama getting sick with valley fever.

Have you ever been an immigrant because Esperanza was. Immigration is where you leave a country and come to the us. This may happen when something tragic happens or you are forced to move. Something happens to Esperanza in Mexico from Esperanza rising. Mama and Her are to move to California and are treated badly and face challenges as an immigrant. Esperanza faced some challenges. They were mama sickness and the beginning of daily chores.

In Esperanza Rising by Pam Munoz Ryan, a selfish girl named Esperanza learns the truth of God that hard work and trials produce good character when she goes from being a wealthy Mexican to a poor peasant. In the beginning, on the train when the little girl reaches out to touch Esperanzas' doll, she pulls it away because she does not want the little girl to touch her doll because she is dirty. Next, when Esperanza begins to grow older she tells Miguel that “we are on different sides of the river” as to that he was a servant and, moreover, she was a wealthy privileged Mexican. These examples show how Esperanza believes that she was better than the servants and often puts herself higher than others out of selfishness. Later, Esperanza states that

In the novel, Esperanza Rising by Pam Muñoz Ryan the main character is Esperanza Ortega. Esperanza was a 13-year-old girl who lived in a ranch called El Rancho de las Rosas [The Ranch of the Roses]. She was the daughter of a wealthy rancher. Suddenly, her father’s killing forces Esperanza to leave her perfect life to flee to California as a peasant worker. During this journey, Esperanza faces many radical changes in her personality.

Esperanza is the main character and narrator of this story. Esperanza is a young lady growing up in a poor neighborhood in Chicago. She and her family are new to this country, which can be assumed because she has memories of the houses back in Mexico (Cisneros 17). The book focuses on Esperanza, her family, her friends, and even her neighbors which all live in the same street. From childhood, to adolescence, Esperanza tells the reader her story and what she lived through as well as those who associated with her. This book is an insight to a Chicano (Mexican-American) family, and the struggles that as such they go through. Esperanza starts the story as a little girl and goes all the way to adulthood throughout her narration. There are other characters involved in the story, such as Esperanza’s family, which are Papa, Mama, Nenny, Carlos, and Kiki. Other relatives and friends are involved in the story as well.

In her neighborhood there is a junk store where the shopkeeper will only turn the lights if you have the money to buy something. When she wanted to experience eating in the lunchroom, the lunch lady was so unpleasant to her that she cried. “One day I’ll own my own house, but I won’t forget who I am or where I came from. Passing bums will ask, Can I come in? I’ll offer them the attic, ask them to stay, because I know how it is to be without a house”(87). This shows that Esperanza will be kind to those below her unlike the shopkeeper and the lunch lady. This makes her a kind hearted human being and that is part of who she is. Growing up in a poor Chicago neighborhood shaped Esperanza to be a kind, compassionate person who knows her worth and doesn’t judge people by sight.

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

She was taught by Marin about fundamental facts related to boys. She also experienced sexual awakening when exploring the neighborhood in high-heeled shoes and therefore quickly learned that the society when she is living denied the role of women. In fact, women in her society are treated unfairly as men use force to take what they do not want to give willingly like the bum man that attempts to kiss Rachel or the Oriental man forcing Esperanza to kiss on her first day of the job. Women are also left with the responsibilities to raise children by themselves like Rosa Vargas, some have their fates decided to stay behind the rolling pin or spend whole life in the factories like Alicia. Moreover, Esperanza morally develops from desiring to escape from the Mango Street into becoming familiar with her neighborhood, and she accepts her place as a part of the community that she is even afraid whenever she is in other places. There is also a revolution in her writing ability as it is improved from loosely linked parts of daily life observation to more logical