Esperanza's Things Fall Apart

Esperanza’s culture shaped her identity In the “The house on Mango Street” written by Sandra Cisneros, a girl named Esperanza, shaped her identity because of everything she experienced while living in Chicago in 1984. Esperanza relates to the other hispanics who miss their home countries and struggle just to get by. She goes to a church and a school that nuns teach at. Esperanza is exposed to a lot of cultures and languages that help her shape her identity.   Esperanza's experiences with her culture have helped shape her identity.

“Don’t be afraid to start over.” Immigrants everywhere have to move and start their whole life over. Esperanza Rising is a book about a rich Mexican girl that loses everything when her house burns down. This book was written by Pam Munoz Ryan, and her life was much like Esperanza’s when she had to move from Mexico and had to work for very low pay as an immigrant. Esperanza faced many challenges like Marta and her friends trying to get workers to go on a strike, mama getting sick with Valley Fever, and other Mexicans facing discrimination in the U.S.

What would you do it you were mexican, then came to America and had to face discrimination? Immigrants that are mexican face these problems almost everyday. Esperanza Ortega from the book “ Esperanza Rising” by Pam Munoz Ryan is facing the same problems. She lived in Mexico in Aguascalientes, she got forced to leave Mexico and move to the U.S. There in the U.S. she faced discrimination, and many more problems. Although Esperanza faced many challenges as an immigrant, her hardest ones were doing chores and facing discrimination.

Esperanza is faced with several major events that forces her to mature at a young age. In these events readers can see how she grows as her emotions change. In the beginning of the book, Esperanza’s father passes away (p. 22) and their family home on the ranch, El Rancho de las Rosas, catches on fire (p.40). This is the beginning of Esperanza's quickly changed young life. As a young girl she realizes life will never be the same. She once was wealthy and lived life with the help of housekeepers. Papa also had field workers to help with his needs on the farm. Raised with a positive perspective on life, her hopes and dreams are soon challenged. Esperanza is forced to leave everything she has ever known to move to the United States. The fire is symbolic because the family is forced start all over, in life, along with her social

I had many emotions at the end of the movie, but they can all be summed up to sad, inspired and relieved. Initially, I felt sad after watching the movie because no one should have to feel hopeless or that they are bound to fail. Also, because in America, one of the wealthiest countries, children should not have to go without their primary needs, such as food. Next, I felt inspired because it showed that people can change. Throughout the movie, Mister, the main character, and his mother made large life adjustments. Mister’s mother stopped using drugs and Mister goes from being a scared fourteen year old to a member of his extended family network, which according to the text book is where “adult members experience a collective social, financial and ethical responsibility to care for family members.” (Waites, 2008) I felt relieved at the end of the movie because in a way Mister and Pete got their happy ending. They ended up together at Riverside and Mister’s mom recovered from her addiction.

Imagine starting over your entire life right now. Everything you built up and maintained gone, you'd be an immigrant. ¨Do not be afraid to start over”These words don't only apply to stories, they apply to immigrants Esperanza Ortega from Esperanza Rising, by Pam Munoz Ryan, also had to start her life over. Esperanza was a rich girl in mexico who had to move to california, and do hard labor after a tragic accident from bandits. Esperanza faced many challenges, however the two challenges that were the worst were Mama having valley fever and having to learn how to do chores.

Literary Analysis of Esperanza Rising Symbolism is the use of symbols to represent ideas or qualities. It is a figure of speech that is used when an author wants to create certain moods or emotions, deepen the story’s message, and secretly tell the readers what could happen later in the story. The novel Esperanza Rising, by Pam Munoz Ryan, is a story of struggle, hardship and determination following Esperanza, her family, and servants as they flee from Mexico to California. The author uses a specific fruit as the title of each chapter to symbolize emotions or events occurring within the chapters. Three specific chapters which truly use symbolism to signify emotions are Figs, Plums, and Guavas.

“Beautiful and Cruel” exemplifies how Esperanza is growing up too quickly. She is aware of the social norms in her community and how

The ending of a novel can be evaluated by the reader in several different ways, however to properly analyze the work is to further explore the logic of how everything has come to be. The ability of the author to show the reader that the ending is reasonable from the preceding action and the character’s nature is what should truly be examined. Not only is the ending of The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz both happy and unhappy, it is logical in the sense that it follows logically from the climax of the novel all while the character’s have been constant throughout, except Oscar. Oscar, the protagonist experiences a life-changing transformation that leads to his untimely death. However, the ending is convincing because of this

Guillen, Glazy Via Mae J. World Lit PT2-1 Mr. Angeles Like Water for Chocolate Laura Esquivel Thesis Statement: Laura Esquivel showed in her novel, Like Water for Chocolate, how a daughter helplessly follow the decisions of her mother despite of her having different perspective in life and how the she cope up with this problem. In the story, Like Water for Chocolate, it is showed how Tita Dela Garza craved for affection. The desire of having someone who will love her, which she never felt before, makes her crave more.

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 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

My final favorite chapter is “bums in the attic.” Esperanza talks about visiting the nicer houses on Sundays with her family. She eventually stops doing this because she doesn’t want to look at things she doesn’t have. She says she wants a house like those when she gets older, but she doesn’t want to forget the people living in worse conditions. She wants to let bums sleep in the attic if they have no where else to stay. I like this because it shows how she doesn’t want to forget where she came from and wants to be

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

Mexican immigrants faced discrimination, hard labor, and low wages. In Esperanza Rising by Pam Munoz Ryan, Esperanza had to become a Mexican immigrant because her father, Sixto Ortega, was killed and Esperanza and Mama had to escape from her rude uncles. Since her Papa’s death, Esperanza had to face many other challenges as an immigrant such as she had to learn how to do daily chores because she always has had a servant, the dust storms caused mama to get valley fever, and Mexicans were discriminated against in America.