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. The first challenge Esperanza had to face was learning daily chores that she had never done because she had always had a servant do everything for her. One day Esperanza got made fun of by Marta and her friends because she didn’t know how to sweep correctly. On page 118 the author states, “ He shut the door, then stood in front of her and said, 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.” After Miguel cheered her up, he …show more content…
In the migrant camps the Mexicans live in are worse than the okies and all of the others. The Mexicans could only swim in the pool on Friday afternoons before they clean it on Saturday. Everyone else could swim when they wanted. In the chapter peaches on page 218 it says, “The Mexicans can only swim on Friday afternoons, before they clean the pool Saturday on mornings.” Everyone thought that all of the Mexicans were unskilled and were good for nothing. Most of them are hard workers though. On page 187 it states, “Esperanza, people here think all Mexicans are alike. They think we are all uneducated, dirty, poor, and unskilled.” Esperanza was kinda confused about why they tfhink that she was uneducated. She also seemed kinda sad. On page 187 it says, “Miguel, how could anyone look at me and think I was
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 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
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.
The first challenge Esperanza faced as an immigrant was having to do chores. Esperanza and other immigrants were expected to be able to do chores. Esperanza doesn’t know how to do chores. On page 117, Esperanza said,
The book Esperanza Rising, by Pam Munoz Ryan, gives readers a reason to never be afraid of starting over. The main character named Esperanza, is faced with several challenging situations as a young girl. These challenging events are life changing at times, which forces her to make adult decisions at young age. The life Esperanza is forced to live is unfortunately a reality to many Mexican families that made the move to the United States in search of the American Dream. Events faced by Esperanza’s family alongside workers of the El Rancho de las Rosas, which Esperanza’s family owned, forces Esperanza to change into a mature young teenage female. Munoz Ryan shows Esperanza’s character change by challenges she is faced with. The outcome of these events show growth within her young life by the emotions Esperanza expresses. Throughout the book Munoz Ryan uses symbolism to show growth and change within all characters. However; it is obvious to see the symbolic aspects the author provides related to Esperanza’s changes. The author faces Esperanza with different events to help remind her of a once wealthy life along with her current immigrant life style. As a whole many factors influence Esperanza's change. In the onset of Esperanza Rising, Esperanza is a wealthy, spoiled and dependent eight year old child, due to life changing events, she matures into an independent and mature teenage female.
“Don´t be afraid to start over.”All immigrants need to know this. Being an immigrant can cause many challenges, you have to leave your old life behind and your memories. Esperanza Ortega in the book Esperanza Rising by Pam Munoz Ryan was an immigrant from Mexico. She had a lot of challenges as an immigrant. Before she immigrated to America she was a wealthy young girl in Mexico with servants. A series of tragedies forced her and he mama to move to America. This leads her to not be able to anything that a servant would do. Learning how to do chores was one of her challenges. In addition, she had two other challenges they were Mama getting Valley Fever, and the Mexican immigrants facing discrimination.
The first time Esperanza makes an appearance in the book, she is younger and easily manipulated, especially by her friends. Esperanza meets a girl named Cathy, a snobby girl that lived on Mango Street. When Cathy tells Esperanza “Okay, I’ll be your friend. But only until next Tuesday. That’s when we move away.” Then as if she forgot I had just moved in, she says the neighborhood is getting bad” (13) This was a racist statement towards Esperanza and her family, something she doesn’t quite understand yet because Esperanza thinks Cathy forgot they moved in, yet she was actually being racist. This is the first time Esperanza is exposed to racism in the book, therefore exposing her to the outside world. Later in the book, Esperanza meets Sally, a beautiful girl with shiny black hair, that all she seemingly just wants is to love, and Esperanza wants to be just like her. “I like your black coat and the shoes you wear, where did you get them? I want to buy shoes just like yours.” (82) Sally and Esperanza become friends, but later in the story, in the chapter Red Clowns, Esperanza is put in a dangerous situation where Sally walks off
With her mind racing ahead of her she grabbed her backpack and ran out of class. Esperanza feeling hopeless began to drown in her tears. Her mind swirled in confusion she felt like an American but she also felt branded as an immigrant. Esperanza had heard the word immigrant cringe before through the mouth of her History teacher he identified them as people who were dangerous and un-educated that did not deserve to be in this country. Esperanza did not feel like she was a threat she wanted nothing more than to get an equal education so she could one day contribute to the land of promise. Esperanza pushed the doors to the girls restroom a part of her wanted to scream “This is not my fault I was only two when my parents crossed the border how was I to warn them that the promises were limited on the other
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
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
Esperanza has a variety of female role models in her life. Many are trapped in abusive relationships, waiting for others to change their live. Esperanza had many struggles in her life, not growing up where and how she wanted to so role models were very important to her. These role models showed her the way she didn't
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
In The House on Mango Street, we see how the youth struggled with the discrimination being pushed on them by Whites. Esperanza describes how they lived in such a poverty-stricken area of the city, and did not interact with the Whites. She talks about how the Whites saw Mexicans as bad people who committed crimes. Esperanza shows how personal identity for Mexicans was made
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 the book esperanza rising they had money and a good house but the her father soon died and their farm burned down and they were poor so they had to go to the united states and work on a farm because they lost everything. They started of rich with everything they can ask for then they ened poor with nothing. Ha started of poor with nothing now they are living in the united states with a little something. They both had to move to america they both had lost their fathers but esperanza was working and Ha was a student so they were both kind of the same but have different outcomes and ways they were put in society. The society labeled esperanza as a working person and ha as a student that was from another county that did not know