What Are The Challenges That Esperanza Faced In The House On Mango Street

Growing up as a child in a poor family, Esperanza Cordero was very ambitious. She was ashamed of her family and her house, and she always had dreams of one day having a beautiful house on a hill, with flowers all around. A house she wouldn't be ashamed to point to and say it was hers. She knew

The first challenge Esperanza faced as an immigrant was doing house chores. On page 117 it says, “ I told Mama I could help. But I cannot even wash clothes or sweep a floor” So Esperanza told Mama she would do house chores, but she can’t even sweep. She used to never work because she had servants to clean for her.

The first challenge Esperanza faced as an immigrant was mama getting sick with Valley fever. “Don’t worry. I will take care of everything. I will be la patrona (head of household) for the family now.” (page-178) Said Esperanza. It shows that Esperanza is going to have to get a job as a field worker. Then she is going to have to work hard to pay for mama’s hospital bills.

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 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.

The first challenge Esperanza faced as an immigrant was she had to do house work. Mama was working in the fields, so Esperanza had to do the daily house chores and watch the babies.

As you should know, in the book, “Esperanza Rising” by Pam Muñoz Ryan, Esperanza Ortega went through a hard time with struggles accompanied by her family. Sadly due to some problems that occurred, Esperanza and her mother left their home to go to the United States. Esperanza's father past away, and her uncle wanted to take over his place; he did many horrible things if someone stopped him from doing so. The hard times Esperanza went through helped her grow as a person and young women in several ways. She had to learn how to work in order to survive, She felt equally as a person to others and that she was no better, and Esperanza changed her way of being over what she experienced.

First of all, why did Esperanza Ortega move to America in the first place?Well, her Papa had died from bandites, so Tio Luis (Papa’s brother,) proposes to mama, and burns the house, so they are forced to move to America to escape him!Since Esperanza was an immigrant,

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.

“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.

Throughout the course of Mango Street, Esperanza’s relationship towards her house change. As time passes her feelings about the house itself change and the emotional impact of the house of her changes as well. Esperanza’s house on Mango Street symbolizes her Mexican culture. For so long she has wanted to leave it. She envisions a different type of life than what she is used to - moving from house to house. “this house is going to be different / my life is going to be different”. One can look at all the things she envisions - the "trappings of the good life" such as the running water, the garden etc. as symbols for the new life.

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 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

Lindsey Rietzsch once said “A negative attitude drains, a positive attitude energizes.” This quote means that having a negative attitude lowers your self versus having a positive attitude where is actually increases attitude and it energizes you by inspiring you. “The House on Mango Street” sets up in Chicago, where the narrator(Esperanza) lives on Mango Street. The House on Mango Street that Esperanza lives in is really bad condition and old. It is so small that the narrator has to share beds in the same room with her family. Esperanza begins to lower her self esteem because she does not like where she lives and every time when some asks, “Where do you live?” She wants a real house that she could point to and she thinks the House On Mango street is not. But later, along the times, Esperanza’s negativity of herself begins to slowly change by looking at nature and take a closer look at the environment she lives in. Cisnero shows that knowing and being able to accept where our background is from is an important part of growing in life also as determining the real you.