ESPERANZA RISING By PAM MUNOZ RYAN

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ESPERANZA RISING
By PAM MUNOZ RYAN
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There is a girl name Esperanza who lives in
Mexico and she is richand happy.

• Then everything is going bad when papa is murder
• Their house is burned down and they have to move
  to a state in the U.S.A
• Things only got worst. A dust storm comes in and
  every thing is cover in dust
• Momma gets sick and is in the hospital for a
  while
• Miguel take the money to go get Abuelita from
  Mexico

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THEME
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PLOT

• Papa is dead
• Esperanza and her family moves to the U.S.A
• A dust storm comes in
• Momma is sick
• Miguel leaves to get Abuelita

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Setting

• Esperanza, mama, Miguel and Hortensia are all in
  California doing field work just to live in a
  cabin and to stay alive.

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CHARACTERS

• Mama-Mama is the faithful mother of Esperanza and
  daughter of Abuelita. Mama is tall, elegant and
  nice. Her hair is long and braided wreath, name
  is Ramona Ortega.
• Papa-papa is the father of Esperanza. He is a
  hard working man, he is rich and gives money to
  the poor. Hes barely taller than mama. He has
  grey mustache, and his name is Sixto Ortega.
• Esperanza Ortega, daughter of Ramona Sixto
  Ortega. She has long black hair just like her
  mama and she has brown eyes. She is smart and
  social.

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WORDS

• The vaqueros are on their horses ready to ride.
  Vaqueros means cowboys.
• The shrine was decorated with flowers. A shrine
  is a tomb of a saint.
• Children ran after the caboose. Caboose is a the
  last car on a freight train.
• Come, mi nieta. Mi nieta means my granddaughter

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THE DUST BOWL

• The dust bowl was a dust storm that happened in
  the 1930s and lasted about a decade. It mostly
  impacted the southern plains. The northern Plains
  were not so badly effected, but nonetheless, the
  drought, windblown dust and agricultural decline
  were no strangers to the north. In fact the
  agricultural devastation helped to lengthen the
  Depression whose effects were felt worldwide. The
  movement of people on the Plains was also
  profound.
• Poor agricultural practices and years of
  sustained drought caused the Dust Bowl. Plains
  grasslands had been deeply plowed and planted to
  wheat. During the years when there was adequate
  rainfall, the land produced bountiful crops. But
  as the droughts of the early 1930s deepened, the
  farmers kept plowing and planting and nothing
  would grow. The ground cover that held the soil
  in place was gone. The Plains winds whipped
  across the fields raising billowing clouds of
  dust to the skys. The skys could darken for days,
  and even the most well sealed homes could have a
  thick layer of dust on furniture. In some places
  the dust would drift like snow, covering
  farmsteads.

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SIMILE, METAPHOR, and ALLITERATION

• Esperanza is like the air.
• Hortensa is like a tree.
• Mama is a orange.
• Miguel is a monkey
• Miguel makes more money.
• Mama mostly makes muffins

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L I F E
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Authors feelings

• The author probably feels like Esperanza was
  having a great time, when papa died everything
  went from good to bad. Tio Louis asked mama to
  merry him but mama said no.
• When they had to move things went form bad to
  worst. Esperanzas life is depressing. So the
  author probably feels like Esperanza is now poor,
  tied, and depressing.

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THE END