Short Story : Esperanza Rising

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.

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.

The first time that blankets are brought into the story, grandmother teaches Esperanza to crochet and she says that her “love and good wishes” will be in the blanket forever. Later, Abuelita compares the stitches in the blanket to mountains and valleys meaning the ups and down of life. When she sees her father’s dead body in the back of the wagon he is

Esperanza does not want to be like the other women in her town, always locked inside and the only freedom they have is a small window. Her great-grandmother was a role model, she showed Esperanza the way she did not want to

"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.

While Carmen helping poor people Esperanza confused because she didn’t think of poor can help each other. She was confused because the way she raised were different compared to other people. Finally, Esperanza realized that there are more profound aspects in life than being

Esperanza is able to look at her great grandmother and realize what she does not want to become, but also she realizes what she does want: to become a strong, independent woman.

When Esperanza sat down Mama started talking while she got up and got the breakfast that she had wrapped it with a foil for Esperanza. It was tortillas with beans and lettuce filled in it. She explained that she had got the job at the cotton cloth making factory near the El Rancho, so that Abuelita and she wouldn't wait too long. “I will be starting the work tommorow,” Mama said. “Tomorrow?!” exclaimed Esperanza. “Mama, she continued,”You won’t be okay since papa had died few days ago, it is also dangerous out there, and I will be staying alone until you come. I’m not prepared yet!” said Esperanza. “No, I will be alright, plus, you will be staying with Abuelita till I come.” said Mama calmly. It will be alright Esperanza, added Abuelita. But before they could calm her down, Esperanza was already dropping into tears. She didn’t want Mama to have a harsh living working in the factory. She hurried back to her room and closed the door hardly. She sobbed pushing her face against the pillow. When hours past, Esperanza woke up in sleep from the noise of Mama calling her name to unlock the door to talk to her. She jumped out of her bed and opened the door. She quickly then hopped back in. Mama carefully sat on the edge of her bed. She talked about how the factory was very secure, and she also met a guy, who was the owner, that was very kind and generous. Esperanza

Everybody has difficulties in their lives that change them in some way, shape, or form. When a person experiences these difficulties; It can cause them to shift their outlook on certain things and/or cause changes in character. This is certainly the case when it comes to Esperanza Ortega. She is the main character in Esperanza Rising. Esperanza 13 years old and lives in El Rancho de las Rosas. She is the only daughter of a very wealthy rancher. Esperanza is forced to leave her perfect life due to the murder of her father. She comes to California and becomes a peasant worker. This journey causes Esperanza to change in many different ways.

Esperanza is a shy but a very bright girl. She dreams of the perfect home now, with beautiful flowers in their luscious garden and a room for everyone to live in comfortably all because of the unsatisfied face the nun made that one afternoon--when she moves to the house of Mango Street. She thinks it’s going to be a “grand house on a hill that will have a bedroom for everyone and at least three washrooms so when they took a bath they would not have to tell everybody.” (Cinceros 4) Reality is so different for her when her dream is shot down in a heartbeat when she

She discovers that her aunt has found her a job matching pictures with negatives at the local photofinishing store. Esperanza has to lie about her age so she can get the job with her Aunt Lala. Esperanza starts to feel more comfortable as she has someone to eat lunch with. He says to Esperanza that “I please him with a birthday kiss” (55). She says she would but he grabs her faces, kisses her hard and does not let go. This is Esperanza’s first real sexual experience that she has. Esperanza has her first crush with a boy named Sire. He has a girlfriend named Lois who doesn’t really know much. Her parents tell that Sire is a punk but that does not keep Esperanza from wishing she could “sit up outside late at night on the steps with sire/ or from wondering what it feels like to be held by a boy, something she so far has only felt in her dreams” (72-71). This is Esperanza’s first experience of jealousy to finding the missing pieces of a puzzle to her identity. Esperanza sometimes worries that she is unattractive and that her looks will “leave her stuck at home” (88). Esperanza’s mother by saying she will be more beautiful as she gets older. Esperanza is faced by getting judged on your self-image. She wants to be like the “femme fatales” in movies, who drive men crazy and refuse them instead of waiting around for a husband to take her away. Esperanza’s mother complains that how she could have done something with her life and about how

“There is no rose without thorns.” As an immigrant you face many challenges. There are lots of bumps in your life and others as well.You will always face something hard or maybe even dangers. This is pretty much an immigrants life too, but theres is much much harder than yours. Esperanza lived in Mexico then something tragic happened and she had to flew to America/California. Will she learn to be a peasant, or will she think she is still a princess. In the book Esperanza faced faced many at camp the hardest challenges she faced were doing chores and, being head of house by getting a job. These challenges are the hardest, and this is Esperanza reaction to them.

Esperanza becomes angry at the fact that the women and girls in her neighborhood don’t stand up for each other, they just let the men and boys do what they’d like. The women are imprisoned inside, abused, and Esperanza knows it is wrong. She wants to save Sally because nobody else can, and nobody else wants

Esperanza goes to the house of a “witch woman” named Elenita to have her fortune told. Esperanza goes to have her fortune told to see if there is a “house” in her future, but Elenita only sees a “home in the heart.” Esperanza is disappointed by her fortune because she does not understand it. She wants a new, real home of her own, one where she can live in serenity. Elenita, like Aunt Lupe, offers her the quickest and safest way to get a home for herself, “a home in the heart” – a sense of her character that would be safer than any physical house ever built. Esperanza's “home in her heart” would be self-constructed, loving, and inviolable, free and safe from sexual threats and criticism from others around her. Esperanza fails to realize this,

Esperanza is led by the dream to leave Mango Street at once, nevertheless she knows that she will have to return one day to help and encourage all those who will fallen in the big hole of hopelessness. She can leave Mango Street but she can not escape