Pobre Ana is a story about a girl from California who has a lot of problems in her life. She has problems with both her family and friends. She also has probems with the food her family has and her clothes. This, however, all changes when she goes on a trip to Mexico. When she arrives at the airport, she is met with her Mexican family. Here, she meets three amazing friends. Susanna, Patricia, and Roberto. Spending time with them makes her realize how good of a life she has and how fortunate she actually is. She is sad to leave them, but she is grateful of the experience she got to have. When she gets back to California, her perspective on everything changes. She is happy with her house, clothes, family, and friends. In her eyes her life is
On one hand we can see that she pushes back and challenges her tradition on the other hand it is difficult to not see emotion expressed by herself when she is alone. One scene that does do this is when she is buying condoms for the first time but does not know what to purchase. This small but significant scene revels that although she is strong and ready she also needs guidance through her path of adulthood. She is able to ask a pharmacist for advice but not her own mother. This lack of connection to be open up to mothers is emphasized enough to create awareness that young Mexican American women need someone to talk to and it should preferably be their
enable her to surmount the many obstacles she would face. She would endure the untimely death of both parents as a teenager and would be forced to raise her
feels free and discovers many new things in life that she has not noticed before.
This novel is a story of a Chicano family. Sofi, her husband Domingo together with their four daughters – Esperanza, Fe, Caridad, and Loca live in the little town of Tome, New Mexico. The story focuses on the struggles of Sofi, the death of her daughters and the problems of their town. Sofi endures all the hardships and problems that come her way. Her marriage is deteriorating; her daughters are dying one by one. But, she endures it all and comes out stronger and more enlightened than ever. Sofi is a woman that never gives up no matter how poorly life treats her. The author- Ana Castillo mixes religion, super natural occurrences, sex, laughter and heartbreak in this novel. The novel is tragic, with no happy ending but at the same time funny and inspiring. It is full of the victory of the human spirit. The names of Sofi’s first three daughters denote the three major Christian ideals (Hope, Faith and Charity).
let the tragedies in her life cripple her. Instead it strengthens her. Through questioning and
The story revolves around the reality that Mexican girls are raised to find a man and get married. They have a mind set about having a man in their l...
up to date with society. She has many things that are wrong to her in
Esperanza explains how Mamacita “sits all day by the window and plays the Spanish country” (77). Esperanza expresses the emotions that Mamacita feels since she is homesick and doesn’t fit into the new society she was brought into. Instead of shaming Mamacita for the way she acts and the way she feels, Esperanza takes into consideration the hardship of being a person of color in an environment that doesn’t accept her for who she
...ssions to strengthen and guide her through the painful loss of mother and life by living everyday as if it were her last.
...s the rest of her life to herself. She may once again weep for him, but ultimately her freedom overshadows this.
kindness of strangers, but all of them have abused and abandoned her. In the end, even her
that she is a better person now she is in search of a good relationship with
able to discovery that there is more to her life than being a passive and untrue person.
to her progressive education for the happiness that she earns at the end of the