Quotes From Esperanza Rising

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

Esperanza's mother was also a very influential role model for Esperanza. Esperanza learns how important an education is by looking at her mother's situation. Her mother laments, “I could have been somebody, you know?” (91). Her mother could have had a better life and a better job if she continued to go to school, and she imparts this wisdom upon her daughter. “Esperanza, you go to school. Study hard” (91). Esperanza does not want to end up in her mother's situation. Without a proper education, a successful life is nearly impossible to achieve. Esperanza's mother teaches her the importance of being strong, educated, and independent: “Got to take care all your own” (91).

Courage is when someone faces their fears when they are confronted with obstacles. It is during this time that we realize how much strength we have inside. Not only does this happen in real life, it happens in books as well. In the book, Esperanza Rising, Esperanza is the protagonist that shows a lot of courage. I believe that Esperanza is a courageous character because she overcomes papa’s death, losing her riches and home, and moves to another country.

In Esperanza Rising by Pam Munoz Ryan, a selfish girl named Esperanza learns the truth of God that hard work and trials produce good character when she goes from being a wealthy Mexican to a poor peasant. In the beginning, on the train when the little girl reaches out to touch Esperanzas' doll, she pulls it away because she does not want the little girl to touch her doll because she is dirty. Next, when Esperanza begins to grow older she tells Miguel that “we are on different sides of the river” as to that he was a servant and, moreover, she was a wealthy privileged Mexican. These examples show how Esperanza believes that she was better than the servants and often puts herself higher than others out of selfishness. Later, Esperanza states that

Esperanza has hopes far beyond the stereotypical expectations of Chicanos within society at the time but her status and mindset does not match those goals. As far as her status, she is apart of the lower class class family who were dreamers and fed unrealistic concepts into their children minds of one day having this “dream” house but in all actuality, they knew it would never happen. For example, on page 4, Esperanza

Esperanza Rising by Pam Munoz Ryan is a great example of “do not be afraid to start over. After learning about immigrants, Esperanza faced several challenges as an immigrants such as the dust storm causing mama to become sick with valley fever and Esperanza and other Mexicans faced discrimination in the U.S. The first challenge Esperanza faced was when the dust storm causes mama to become sick with valley

Esperanza’s insecurity about where she lives and how she lives is the conflict of the story. A tradition her father, Nenny, and herself has is going to the houses on the hills, she believes she looks like the hungry asking for food so she no longer goes. Esperanza is so ashamed of her house that when someone ask which house she lives in she denies living in those flats. She becomes aware of how poor her family is when she must go to work to help pay for private school, this encourages her to get out of the flats. Esperanza sets out to be able to support herself on her own and buy the house she has been dreaming of since she was little.

Mexican immigrants in California faced discrimination through horrible living conditions, hard labor, and low wages. American people made them feel unwanted and took away their rights. In the book Esperanza Rising by Pam Munoz Ryan, Esperanza, a 13-year-old girl that had it all, lived in Mexico, but one morning she had to go to an immigration camp in California because her father got killed by bandits. Since her Papa’s death, Esperanza had to face many other challenges as an immigrant such as chores, strikers, and Mama gets sick.

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

She was born in Chicago, Illinois. Cisneros grew up in a Latino family around the 1950s and 1960s. She had a Mexican father and Chicano mother. Cisneros was encouraged by her mother to read and was not insisted with spending all of her time performing classic “women’s work”. Cisneros welcomes her culture with open arms, but acknowledges the unjustness between the genders within. Having experience growing up in a poor neighborhood in a working class family while facing the difficulties created by racism, sexism, and her status, Esperanza longed to leave the barrio. Later, she finds her capability to succeed individually and find a “home with herself”; she worked to recreate some Chicano stereotypes for her community. Cisneros didn’t want to

When one visualizes Latino culture, the prevalent images are often bright colors, dancing, and celebrations. This imagery paints a false portrait of the life of many Latino’s, especially those that are forced to leave their home countries. Latinos often face intense poverty and oppression, whether in a Latin country, or a foreign country, such is true in Pam Ryan’s novel Esperanza Rising. Ryan chronicles the issues that many Latino immigrants face. The first is the pressure from the home country. Many of the countries face turmoil, and many are forced to leave their homes and culture. Once in a foreign place, people often struggle with standing by their own culture or assimilating to the new culture. Latino authors frequently use young adult literature as a platform to discuss the issues they face, as young adults are coming of age they struggle with their identities, personifying the struggle of old culture against the new culture.

Esperanza Rising by Pam Munoz Ryan is about, Esperanza is a rich girl in Mexico, she she live on a ranch that her papa owned, until bandits killed him, her uncle's burned down the house and they had to move to America and leave Abileata in Mexico. Esperanza’s mother got sick and she had to pay the hospital bill and try to save money to bring Abaleata to America.

Now, Esperanza doesn't plan on taking these societal expectations laying down, and with the support of her community, she can make her dreams come true. She has hopes and dreams that she intends to fulfill, no matter what others want from or for her. She will have get own house, her own job, and her own life,

In the migrant camps the Mexicans live in are worse than the okies and all of the others. The Mexicans could only swim in the pool on Friday afternoons before they clean it on Saturday. Everyone else could swim when they wanted. In the chapter peaches on page 218 it says, “The Mexicans can only swim on Friday afternoons, before they clean the pool Saturday on mornings.” Everyone thought that all of the Mexicans were unskilled and were good for nothing. Most of them are hard workers though. On page 187 it states, “Esperanza, people here think all Mexicans are alike. They think we are all uneducated, dirty, poor, and unskilled.” Esperanza was kinda confused about why they tfhink that she was uneducated. She also seemed kinda sad. On page 187 it says, “Miguel, how could anyone look at me and think I was

Have you ever been an immigrant because Esperanza was. Immigration is where you leave a country and come to the us. This may happen when something tragic happens or you are forced to move. Something happens to Esperanza in Mexico from Esperanza rising. Mama and Her are to move to California and are treated badly and face challenges as an immigrant. Esperanza faced some challenges. They were mama sickness and the beginning of daily chores.