What is chapter 4 in Esperanza Rising?
What is chapter 4 in Esperanza Rising?
The group arrives at the Rodriguez ranch to find the wagon Mama has requested hidden in the barn. Its floor has been raised enough so that Mama, Esperanza, and Hortensia can lie down and hide inside.
What do the chapter titles in Esperanza Rising mean?
Pam Muñoz Ryan uses an unusual naming convention for the chapter titles in Esperanza Rising—they’re all named after fruits or vegetables! Esperanza starts her journey judgmental of those who have less than she does, but ends with an understanding that there are more important things in life than wealth.
What is chapter 1 called in Esperanza Rising?
Chapter 1: Las Uvas (Grapes), six years later (1930) Esperanza is the only child of Sixto and Ramona Ortega. Sixto is the wealthy owner of El Rancho de las Rosas. Everyone at the ranch is preparing for the year’s grape harvest, including Esperanza’s family, their servants, cowboys, and field workers.
What is chapter 6 about in Esperanza Rising?
Esperanza promptly wanders away from everyone else. She stops on an overlook, and wonders if she can hear the heartbeat of the valley, the way she could at home. Esperanza lies down on the land, but she can’t hear the earth’s heartbeat. She loses her patience and begins to cry.
What happened in Chapter 2 of Esperanza Rising?
Esperanza breaks down in tears as she tells Señor Rodriguez—one of Papa’s oldest friends—that her father is dead. Hortensia appears and puts her arms around Esperanza, comforting her as she sobs. Esperanza must relive the pain of her father’s death over and over again as news of his passing spreads throughout the town.
What is chapter 7 about in Esperanza Rising?
The group eats together after their first long day of work, and then Alfonso and Miguel announce a surprise. They take everyone outside behind the cabin where they have planted a few tiny rose bushes near a plastic statue of Our Lady of the Guadalupe.
What is chapter 8 about in Esperanza Rising?
Esperanza spends her first day alone with the two babies. At first, she is proud of herself and that she is at least contributing in some way. However, she gives the babies raw plums that make them sick.
What is Chapter 7 about in Esperanza Rising?
What is Chapter 8 about in Esperanza Rising?
What happened in Chapter 5 of Esperanza Rising?
Mama tells Esperanza that being rude to people because they’re poor is like being rude to her friends Hortensia, Alfonso, and Miguel. She needs to cut it out, and quick. Esperanza feels ashamed and sulks in the corner. The little peasant girl is still crying so Mama gets Esperanza to help her make a doll out of yarn.