Esperanza Rising Analysis

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Can you answer a question for me “do you think you have a hard life?” probably not but Esperanza had one of the hardest I’ve seen yet but first let me tell you about the story title esperanza rising and the author Pam Munoz Ryan and Esperanza rising is about this girl who overcomes multiple challenges in her life from her dad getting killed to her mom getting sick and multiple other challenges in between. At first Esperanza thought that peasants were bad but now peasants are everyday people and another one is her givingness at first she would not let anyone touch her doll but now she gave it away and finally at first she did not know how to sweep but now she can sweep take care of babies and work in the sheds. Esperanza could be described as shellfish a example of this is when she hides the doll from the little girl on the train on page 69-70 it said “esperanza pulled away the doll and put it in her valise”But eventually changes her ways now she could be described as giving a example of this is when she gave peaches and the doll to isabel on page 227 it says “esperanza pulled her valise out from under her bed and opened it up gave the doll to isabel.” so from these reasons we can conclude that esperanza went from being shellfish to being giving.

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