Isabel Allende's The House Of The Spirits

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

The House of the Spirits incorporates characters of all types and backgrounds. It is a book that is depicted by the clashing personalities of the characters involved. Esteban Trueba is a major character as he takes a foremost function throughout the generations of the Trueba and Garcia families in the book. Esteban is compulsive, aggressive, and acquisitive. He devotes his life to his business and political calling, determined first to become wealthy and then to become authoritative. He owes much of his success to the labor of the peasants at Tres Marias, the house he built, though he by no means regards them with deference or parity. Esteban is a character that goes full circle as he went from having diminutive treasures in life to having

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.

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

“She walks, she talks, she cleans, she works, she IS, but she is NOT, all at once. She is here, but part of her is elsewhere for eternity” (Anonymous). This quote by an anonymous person illustrates a woman who is rooted in who she is but dreams to be someone else. She dreams to be another person, far away from her dreary life. Sandra Cisneros establishes that many young girls within the Hispanic culture represented in The House on Mango Street are forced into roles they do not wish to take, resulting in a loss of identity and ultimately, a sense of powerlessness in the girl without anyone to show her how to be powerful.

A poignant figure in Esperanza’s life is her own grandmother. In fact, Esperanza was given her birth name after her grandmother. A touching gesture that came from good faith. A name may have some value, but for Esperanza there was a high intrinsic quality to such a simple component. Despite, never encountering her own grandmother in person, Esperanza was grateful to have fond memories by carrying her legacy through her name. Life’s motto concerns dealing with adversity and carrying the legacy of one’s family eternally. Being confident and smart was the only way to live by. No man was needed to help raise and nurture herself. Her grandmother instilled in Esperanza a sense of fortitude and independence. It is sad that a regret of Esperanza is linked to her grandmother, further illustrating the physical and mental hardships one can endure in

On the other hand, Rosaura still ideal her reputation to the world. She was Pedro's wife, and she didn't want people to view their relationship was nonexistent. She viewed herself as the lead and must take action to maintain the family tradition by passing it on Esperanza, she said," This little girl was destined to take care of her until the day she died,"(pg 150). Rosaura also opposed Tita and views her as a disgrace from her decent family, she said, "I, I have some self-respect left! Let him go to a loose woman like you for his filthy needs, but here's the thing: in this house I intend to go on being his wife...when have you

The Virgin of El Barrio by Kristy Nabhan-Warren is an ethnography about modern Mexican-American Catholicism and the apparitions of Estela Ruiz and the community that supports her. Throughout the text, Nabhan-Warren focuses on the intersectionality between Catholicism, ethnicity, gender, and community and the success of this grassroots model of Catholicism. Her fieldwork was done in Phoenix, Arizona, initially for three and a half months (although she continues to maintain a relationship with the Ruiz) (Nabhan-Warren, 16), and took place in Mary's home, their backyard shrine, and other properties owned and used by the family's organizations.

The United States of America is a wonderful country; they allow people with different backgrounds to come make a new life here, although it may be very difficult to do. America is not the perfect country some Americans believe it is; it has its faults like everything else. This can be seen in the book The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down by Anne Fadiman. Her book tells the tragic, true story of Lia Lee, a young Hmong girl with epilepsy and her American doctors. The Hmong came to America in the seventies and eighties to escape Laos after the secret war. The Hmong were safe from the war dangers in Laos, but once they arrived in America they would face other kinds of problems. One problem would be the health care system. Anne Fadiman views assimilation for the Hmong as necessary, but difficult to accomplish.

At the beginning of the novel, Esperanza is an naive eleven year old girl who at first did not comprehend why her family would move constantly. Furthermore, she is the older sibling of five kids, and she was expected to take all the responsibility. Moreover, Esperanza mentions that her parents would always told her “one day we would move into a house, a real house that would be ours for always so we wouldn’t have to move each

Esperanza never got over the incident and ever since then has been depressed but Estevan explains that “what helps {him} the most to know is that her life is going somewhere, with someone. To know she’s growing up.” Gender roles play a part in this, even though Ismene was the child of Estevan, his wife did the feeding and diapering. She became more attached to their daughter which proves the gender roles of women especially in countries like Guatemala. Estevan can now talk about her without breaking down but Esperanza has been torn apart ever since. These stories and hardships once again prove to Taylor how cruel the world is outside of what she’s familiar with. Taylor feels sympathy for the couple and wants to help with anything she can. These world issues causes Taylor to feel as if she’s changing and

Not all of the people who come to the USA get to enjoy having the American dream. For Enrique and Rosa, who escaped from the ruins of the hometown in Guatemala, El Norte meant freedom of hardship. In the movie, Rosa and Enrique were farmers heading towards America, to escape the bad guatemalan government and wanting a better life. National Guatemala became a place of fear of Enrique and Rosa, whose parents were killed by Guatemalan government forces who dominated the state in the 1980s. As part of the Indian population of Guatemala, they were not accepted in their own country.

Connect to what you feel, allow your senses to guide you, let the strong memories wash over you and simply give up resistance to maintaining your countenance.

Many deaths have occurred in natural disaster, but in this instance a heartbreaking story takes place when a volcano erupts and destroys a city. Rolf Carlé, a news reporter, is sent to report on the natural disaster when he is assigned to report on a girl named Azucena who was trapped in a mud pit when the eruption happened. In Isabel Allende's short story "And of Clay we Created" it will go over Campbell's classifications of "The Call to Adventure" (Campbell 1) and “The Supreme Ordeal (Campbell 3).

The House of Bernarda Alba and A Doll's House, by Frederico Garcia Lorca and Henrik Ibsen respectively, are two similar plays written at different times. In 1964, Frederico's The House of Bernarda Alba debuted in Madrid Spain, thirty-one years after it's birth in 1933. It pioneered the style of surrealistic imagery, popular folklore and was written in prose. A Doll's House was published in 1879 and appeared on stage that year in Copenhagen. Originally written in Dano-Norwegian known as Riksmal, its read in translation almost exclusively. It was released with a cast of male and female performers, in opposition to The House of Bernarda Alba with only female