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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.

Self-exploration is hindered in this book and my life. I can very much identify with Esperanza perspectives on societal issues that Latin women face. A society dominated by men and women relying on them, whether it is a father, spouse or friend. Men are considered the strong reasonable as where women are weak and emotional, in turn women need men for protection. A young girl may have two story paths, one where she relies on the protection of her father while she watches her mother cater to him or two, witnesses the struggles of a single young woman and absence for a father. This book describes marriage as priority for every girl or else how could she survive; appearances and physical features are highly valued traits. This attitude is not one that Esperanza agrees with, nor do I. For example, Marin she is the girl standing on the street just “waiting for a car to stop, a star to fall, someone to change her life.” This character implies that she does not dream of actively setting life goals for herself and working to earn them, instead she will wait until a man makes it happen for her. The ideology behind this thought being that as a woman she must thrive to be as attractive as possible to heighten her chances of marriage and acquire

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.

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

Lots of things can change when era changes except gender roles but after read this story, gender roles are changing distinctly than others. Even though it has changed a lot now, woman still has difficulty with when they get a job so we must strive until the equality of man and woman is evenly distributed. Esperanza make effort to improve her life and cultivate own self but not make effort to gender equality. She has interest in gender role but not that much so she think about it but not to act. From this essay, I have gave examples of how people might react to the idea about gender roles. However, we need to realize that women should take action for themselves instead of following

Esperanza Facing Challenges “Don’t be afraid to start over”. Being forced to leave your home, and make a new life for yourself and your family. Esperanza young Hispanic girl who was born a princess, than all of a sudden she’s facing challenges that she never thought she would have to deal with. Since her Papa’s death, Esperanza had to face many challenges as an immigrant. Such as learning how to do chores, dealing with Mama becoming sick with Valley Fever, than Esperanza and other Mexicans having to face discrimination in the U.S.

“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.

In Pam Munoz Ryan’s book “Esperanza Rising”, Esperanza discovers a new perspective in life although she faces difficult obstacles. Just like anyone else Esperanza the main character of my book struggles with obstacles in her life. Esperanza finds herself dealing with a lost, but not just any lost her father’s. She has trouble starting over in a country and having a low status. And just when things seem to be stable

Esperanza was a girl that believed her life would be a good life forever and ever . She lived on her family ranch in Mexico she wore fancy dresses and had a nice home . But a big tragedy happened to her and her own little world one day Esperanza mother got sick . she knows if she can bring Abuelita to the United States , but she don't have any money to do that . At only thirteen years old Esperanza started working in the farm sheds packing produce for pitiful wages . Her mother became sicker and had to taken to the hospital but the medical bills had to be payed . Esperanza was a good girl that wanted to make sure her family was doing good and living a great life so she had to get another job so she can pay her mom hospital bill . Her mom was

When Esperanza was growing up women were expected to do three things. Get married, have children, and take care of the house. Some women were fine with that like Sally, who got married to a man a lot older than herself and she was not even in 8th grade yet. Esperanza wants something different with her life. She wants to go to college, to own a house of her home, “not a man's home”. Women were not given as much opportunities as men were. They had to work a hundred times harder just

Although Esperanza does not talk much about her parents in the novel, the concept of family is present. In the book Men They Will Become, Eli Newberger, a Medical Doctor and published author, recognizes the substantial role family plays in an adolescent identity. According to Newberger, “A strong family relationship can give an adolescent the self-assurance he or she needs to cope with all of the challenges of identity formation.” (par. 57). In the chapter “A Smart Cookie”, we can see how Esperanza’s family influences her identity. The mother-daughter relationship becomes intensified after Esperanza’s mother expresses her feelings. “I could’ve been somebody, you know?” (pg. 83), expressed her mother. This simple yet touching statement impacts Esperanza’s search for identity by questioning what she wants to make of her life compared to her mother’s. Valdes states, “Her mother’s nostalgic upbringing impacts Esperanza’s identity, for Esperanza it means primarily to be herself and not what others want her to be” (pg. 3). We can see how a mother’s statement can be perceived by her daughter as advice changing her perspective about both her mother and her future

When Esperanza moves into her teenage years, she begins to learn that there are certain limitations that come with being a female. Yet, she also starts to

Esperanza is still young and extremely impressionable, and as a result, most of her values and assumptions are derived from her parents’ beliefs. She describes how her family feels in a neighborhood of a different ethnicity and states, “...our knees go shakity-shake and our car windows get rolled up tight and our eyes look straight” (28). Her parents have racist stereotypes of other neighborhoods, which have passed onto to Esperanza by instilling into her a fear of people of a different color. Society inevitably makes assumptions about people to categorize them, making mental shortcuts to predict a person’s behavior. Therefore, Esperanza’s parents’ corruption is derived from the prejudice beliefs that society holds as a whole. Alicia’s father is another example of a “bad” parent, who has been corrupted by society, because he subjects her to gender roles. Alicia fears her father, and Esperanza explains that she has “...inherited her mama’s rolling pin..” (31). Esperanza reveals how Alicia is forced into same role her mother had as woman and is responsible for cooking. As a female, Alicia is expected to simply make food for the family, despite her aspirations to study and achieve more. At the end, her fear for her father is revealed, suggesting that she feels hindered by her father’s beliefs in traditional gender roles. All in all, gender roles are an aspect of society and are rooted in the belief that women cannot be capable of anything other than cooking, placing them at a subordinate status to men. Alicia’s father most likely believes this, and because of society’s values, he enforces traditional roles onto Alicia. Overall, upon my first impression of the parents in the story, their biased beliefs were not surprising, since they simply

The main idea is that education is the key to success. Having an education and becoming responsible and independent helps you grow as an individual and this is what Esperanza did. She moved out of the house to become responsible and independent which made her realize that overall she went through it was all worth it. In my opinion, I believe education is very important because it gives us knowledge. Through education we’ll be able to earn a living. According to A House of My Own it states “So…She pauses. How did you do it? Norma I did it by doing the things I was afraid of doing so that I would no longer be afraid. Moving away to go to graduate school. Traveling abroad alone. Earning my own money and living by myself.”

Let’s begin with Alicia and her influence on Esperanza wanting to be autonomous. Alicia has to take on so many responsibilities since her mother passed away. Going through all of this makes her realize that she doesn’t always want to end up like her mother. She inherited a lot from her mother, but the one that Esperanza that drew more attention to is “Alicia, who inherited her mama’s rolling pin and sleepiness, is young and smart and studied for the first time in the university”(31). Obviously it isn’t easy. Wanting to be autonomous is as Esperanza states Alicia must take “ two trains and a bus, because she doesn't want to spend her whole life in a factory or behind a rolling pin”(31-32). Furthermore, Esperanza sees