Esperanza's Rising In The House On Mango Street

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In the novel,​Esperanza Rising,​ one of the proverbs is “He who falls today may rise tomorrow.” This proverb means that life has its ups and downs and one time someone might have a bad moment or crisis but the next time something good might happen to them. This proverb is shown to be true multiple times in the story by the character’s actions. One time this proverb was shown in the novel was when Esperanza’s house gets burned down and everybody loses their belongings but they get back on their feet in the United States and Esperanza learns that all she needs is her family and friends to be happy and rich from the heart. In the middle of the story Mama gets sick with Valley Fever but she gets better and gets back home. In the …show more content…

When Esperanza’s house burned down, she wasn’t grateful of anything that was offered to her but in the end she knew that if it weren’t for those small gifts she would be homeless and dirty like all the poor people she had met at first. In the middle of the story, Esperanza falls down when her Mama gets sick with Valley Fever because she got dust in her lungs during the dust storm. Mama had to be sent to the hospital so that she could recover from depression and her sickness. When Mama was going to leave for the hospital, Esperanza told her “Don’t worry. I will take care of everything. I will be ​la patrona ​for the family now.” (pg.178) The thing that Esperanza meant when she said that to Mama was that she would take care of the family and she would start working to keep the family alive. Esperanza rises while her Mama was in the hospital because she started working to pay for Mama’s medical bills and to pay for the food she would bring home. When Esperanza started working really hard, she realized that now that she was poor she had to start working for the things she needed and wanted. When Esperanza learned that life lesson, she rose from being a …show more content…

Towards the end of the book, Esperanza’s Mama finally gets better and Esperanza finally gets out of the valley and rises up to the top of the mountain again. When Esperanza tried to put money aside to get Abuelita with her family, she went through many ups and downs trying to get the money by working and when Miguel stole all of her money orders. In the end it all seemed to be worth it when Abuelita was finally with the family and Mama wasn’t depressed anymore. Esperanza fell when Miguel took all of her money orders without telling Esperanza that he was going to take them and when Esperanza didn’t know what she was going to do know. When Esperanza found out that Miguel had stolen all of her money orders to go start a new life, she got worried that now she couldn’t get Abuelita with her anymore and that Mama would stay depressed. When Esperanza was asked to go to the bus station to meet Miguel there, she rose because when she arrived there she saw that Abuelita was with him and she was glad that Miguel didn’t waste her money on himself. Esperanza couldn’t believe that Miguel had gotten Abuelita in California and she thought that Abuelita was a ghost or that she was dreaming. Esperanza also rose when her

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