Esperanza's Rising

My first challenge is about when Esperanza could not do daily chores because she had always had servants. On page 118, Miguel said, ¨ You hold the broom like this. One hand here and the other here. Then you push like this, or pull it toward you like this. Here you try.¨ Miguel is showing Esperanza how to hold a broom and how to sweep, because she has never had to do chores because she had always had servants to do all of her chores. Now she has to work. Esperanza now doesn't have servants and can work as well as anybody else because she has persevered and learned how to start over.

Esperanza has hopes far beyond the stereotypical expectations of Chicanos within society at the time but her status and mindset does not match those goals. As far as her status, she is apart of the lower class class family who were dreamers and fed unrealistic concepts into their children minds of one day having this “dream” house but in all actuality, they knew it would never happen. For example, on page 4, Esperanza

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.

The first challenge is that Esperanza faced was not knowing how to do daily chores. She has to sweep the platform, and she dosen’t know how to sweep. The reason why she doesn’t know how to sweep,because she always had servants’. On page 115 miguel told Esperanza that ” you shouldn’t know how to sweep, because you had servants’. I will teach you how to sweep.

For everyone getting their first job is a rite of passage, showing that you are independent and aren’t very reliant on your parents. Esperanza needs to get a job so that she can go to catholic school which costs a significant amount of money to attend. The quote “...Nobody went to public school unless you wanted to turn out bad.” (Cisneros 53) This shows that she has developed a significant amount to take initiative and put money towards her education at this age.

Most importantly, Esperanza faced the challenge of not knowing how to do chores because she always had servants when she lived in Mexico. Esperanza had the chore of sweeping the platform but Marta and her friends made fun of her because she looked weird trying to sweep and didn’t know how to do it. On page 118 it says,“How would you know how to sweep a floor? The only thing you ever learned was how to give orders. That is not your fault. Anza, look at me.” said Miguel. After she got made fun of

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.

In Chapter 5 of the novel Esperanza Rising, Hortensia recounts a story from when Esperanza was five years old and MIguel was eight years old. Hortensia and Esperanza were the only ones in the house when Miguel ran in because he saw six bandits with riffles coming toward them. The three hid under Esperanza’s bed and pulled down the bed covers so that they couldn’t be seen. The bandits came into the house and stole the silver. Two of the men came into the room where they were hiding. Miguel had a big field mouse in his pocket that he was planning to tease Esperanza with. When a pin pricked Esperanza she moved and made a sound. Miguel pushed the mouse out from under the bed and it ran around the room startling the bandits. The bandits thought that the sound had come from the mouse and left. Papa said that Miguel was very smart and brave for protecting Esperanza and rewarded Miguel by taking them both on a special outing on a train.

During that time period, rich people did not do much, (mainly because of servants) so when Esperanza had to do chores she could not of known how to do perfect. It would be impossible for Esperanza to do chores (even bathing) because she had servants in a rich family. (page 117) Esperanza said ¨I said I could work, I told Mama I could help. But I can not even wash cloths or even sweep a floor. Does the whole camp know¨ This quote how difficult a chore could be to Esperanza, and when Esperanza said oes the whole camp know¨ she shows that that not being able to do basic chores can affect someone's personality and outlook towards people as well as negatively affecting their reputation. This challenge was very mentally challenging and was not the only challenge she faced during the time, however this is the last challenge I will be speaking

“Don’t be afraid to start over.” These words are true for people that start like a immigrants new life. Esperanza ortega from Esperanza Rising which the author of the book is pam munoz ryan. As Esperanza is a mexican learning how to be a adult from mexico to california. When it means by the quote “don't be afraid to start over.”

Esperanza is new to the neighborhood, and was never proud of her previous houses, but the negative intonation that the nun uses on her makes her feel like she is being judged, not on who she is, but what her family can afford. There is the place Esperanza now has to call home and the degrading presumption that the neighborhood already has causes her to accept that she can’t change her image without money and let her personality shine through. She seems to accept her label as poor in the story, “A Rice Sandwich”, where she believes the special, also known as rich, kids get to eat in the canteen and she wants to be part of that narrative, so she begs her mother for three days, to write her a note to allow her eat in the canteen. When she couldn’t endure her daughter’s nagging anymore, she complied. Thinking this would be enough affirmation, Esperanza went to school the next with the note and stood in the line with the other kids. She wasn’t recognized by the nun who checks the list, and has to face Sister Superior, who claims that she doesn’t live far enough to stay at school and asks Esperanza to show where her house is. “That one? She said, pointing to a row of ugly three -flats, the ones even the raggedy men are ashamed to go into. Yes, I nodded even though I knew that wasn’t my house,”(45). Esperanza was compared to the most raggedy men, and had to accept

Esperanza’s , first main challenge was mama getting valley fever. In the time period the book took place it was common for many immigrants to get valley fever because their lungs were not used to the air heavy with dust. On page 157 it says “ Her voice strangled with fear. All she could do was whisper the doctor’s uncertain words “ If she survives”,”. As you can tell esperanza is worried because if she lost her mom to valley fever she would be alone. Even though that isn't a physical challenge it is a mental one that could scar esperanza through the rest of esperanza life if she lost her mom too. Also on page 157 it says “ she wanted to tell the doctor she could not lose mama to” from this statement you can tie it back to my first idea

In the hope that my father’s health would improve and we would have better opportunities, my family and I immigrated to the United States four years ago. As a result, we have felt the sting of discrimination. I have experienced discrimination because of my skin color, culture, and my Mexican accent. Several of my peers laughed at my accent; it hurt me deeply because I was trying hard to learn the English language. I had to finish my work in Spanish first and then translate it into English.

When in California, Esperanza has to help Isabel with the babies, Pepe and Lupe. Esperanza used to have workers that completed chores for her, which is why she didn't know how to sweep, wash clothes, and perform other tasks. That didn't help in her favor when it came time to sweep the platform. Esperanza attempted to sweep the onion shells, but didn't succeed. Miguel came back from the fields and saw the frustration in Esperanza’s eyes and taught her how to correctly sweep. The sweeping away of the onion shells on the platform symbolized her shedding away from her old life for a new

In one of the vignettes named, “No Speak English” the main character was Mamacita and she taught Esperanza to learn the language of the country you are currently in. Mamacita did not speak the language perfectly and academically. According to vignette,”She knows to say: He not here for when the landlord comes, No speak English if anybody else comes,and Holy smokes.” This evidence provides that Mamacita is proceeding with her monotonous life because she could not talk to any important people and always live in her apartment.