How Does Esperanza Change

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.

Eventually, Esperanza decides she does not need to set herself apart from the others in her

At the beginning of the book, esperanza's life was perfect. She had a loving father, a thoughtful grandmother, and her brave mother. She had money and endless land. This can act like pedals, nice, beautiful, and peaceful. But then it all fell down. Father died. The house burnt to a crisp, and their money looked

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 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

“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.

Like every other immigrant, Esperanza was expected to do daily chores. Not knowing how to made it very difficult. On page 117 it says, “ I said I could work. I told Mama I could help. But I can’t even wash clothes or sweep floors. Does the whole camp know?” This statement shows that she is probably going to try to have change in her life. Every immigrant knows how to do chores, and she is the only one who doesn’t, so she probably feels left out. It embarrassed Esperanza that everybody knew about it. For example on page 117 “Burning with humiliation Esperanza ran back to the cabin.” This shows that she is very embarrassed that she can not do all the other stuff that everybody else can because she is not trained like

Another time that Esperanza shows change is when, Esperanza goes to get her future read. She goes to see a "witch woman" named Elenita in hope that she sees if anything in her future includes a house. However Elenita only sees "a home in the heart," which causes Esperanza to be disappointed. However this is a turning point for her in the book, because once this happens she begins to accept the fact that the house on mango street is the closes thing she has to a home right now and she begins to accept it. She still dreams of one day of having her dream house on her own when she grows up, however she finally realizes that The House on Mango street is where she is from. It is her home and there is nothing she can do to change this no matter how much she changes as a person the house on Mango street is still her home.

Esperanza is an only child in her family, and during this time it was not acceptable for woman to own land. When Esperanza’s papa gets killed there were no other men in the family, so the land that Esperanza had grew up on and loved would soon all be taken away, unless her mama sacrificers herself and marries the rude brother of Esperanza’s papa. This idea of men owning land is one main reason why Esperanza’s family must migrate to California. If Esperanza was male, this story would not exist because the land would be given to her. Since Esperanza is a female, the story has a complication in the plot that needs to be overcame. This is the first obstacle that Esperanza must triumph over: leaving home to somewhere unknown.

From the start, she always wanted to change, including when she said, “I would baptize myself under a new name, a name more like the real me,” (Cisneros 11). Wanting change to happen, Esperanza felt she needed to change everything to feel more herself. Esperanza however does not notice the changes she does make because she is more focused on the person she’s not. Only with a new home did Esperanza feel she could help other people,

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

Throughout the story Esperanza, the story’s main character, experienced varies traumatic events he caused her to lose some of her innocence. For example, on page 15 Esperanza is attempting to purchase a new bike when she says “I have three dollars saved and I take two of Nenny’s. She’s not home but I’m sure she’ll be glad when she finds out we own a bike.” This passage may seem small to some but this event was a huge turning point in Esperanza’s lose of innocence. This is the first time in the book we really see Esperanza defy her parents and do something not correct. It

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

Esperanza's mother threw everything away because she was embarrassed of her physical appearance. She is a very talented woman who is bilingual, sing, fix a t.v., and more. Now, her mother's job is just to take care of her children. She doesn't want Esperanza to be like her because she was embarrassed of who she is. Esperanza needs a good education, so she doesn't have to be the person her mother is

First, the book starts off telling the story of how Esperanza grew up in a loving wealthy family who owned El Rancho de las Rosas in Aguascalientes, Mexico. She was surrounded by generations of family members who loved her. The family had lots of servants who worked for them during the grape harvest season and they also helped them with everything else during the off season. Esperanza was a young girl who really didn’t understand poverty and was known to have a snobbish attitude at times when she was little because of her family’s wealth. She was surrounded by families that were just as wealthy as her own so poverty was not a norm in their community. There are many examples of her snobby ways in the beginning of book like when she first boarded a train in Mexico and realizes that she and her friend definitely wouldn’t be traveling first class. Her reaction to this was basically like: "You expect me to travel coach?! Yeah right." It was evident Esperanza did not use to a present lifestyle. Esperanza father was her biggest mentor and she followed his teachings very closely. After the death of her father, it was people like Abuelita, Mama, and Miguel that help keep Esperanza diva 'tude in check which helped keep her