3.When Esperanza meets Isabel in California, she smiles at her, yet thinks Isabel can be so happy about “such little things." (page 90)  What does this tell us about Esperanza's character? That she has been rich all of her life, so she gets a lot of things that she wants. Now she can't.  Esperanza thinks  Isabel has hardly anything and she shouldn't be happy, but Isabel has everything she wants and needs like a loving family, friends, a place to sleep, food to eat, and  gets to go to school. Isabel has everything and Esperanza doesn't even know it. 

4.How does Marta treat Esperanza?  Why do you think Marta acts this way towards her?  What can we learn about the character, Marta? (page 96)  I think Marta was being kind of rude to Esperanza because Esperanza's family was rich and Marta's family was poor. Other rich people were mean to families like hers. I think Marta was trying to get back at families like Esperanza's. Marta's father died in the revoltion against the rich, and now she thinks Esperanza is a bad person.

5.Compare the setting in Aquascalientes to the company camp in California.  How is Esperanza’s life different in each place?  How is it similar?

Most of them are Mexicans and one's in Mexico and the others are in the U.S.  They're different because  she live on a big ranch and in camp she lives in a tiny cabin.   

6.What kind of new skills must Esperanza learn in order to live in California? 

      She will have to learn change diapers, sweep floors, act kind, how to wash laundry, and speak a little English. 

 Week Three:  pages 121-178

1.Why does Mama say, “Didn’t I tell you Papa’s heart would find us where ever we went?

          Alfonso and Miguel made a shrine of Our Lady of Guadalupe with their Papa's roses from El Rancho de las Rosas in Mexico.

2.After one day at the farm amp, Esperanza and her family have bruises.  How are Esperanza’s bruises different from those of her family?

        She isn't used to working and she was learning a little too fast.

3.Why is Mama the only one to get sick with Valley Fever?

           She was very depressed and she wasn't comfortable with sandstorms, and her imune system wasn't as strong as the others were.

4.Why does Mama want Abuelita’s blanket?  What do we learn about Mama because of this?

           Mama wanted the blanket because she missed Abuelita and she just wanted a memory of her mother.

5.Why does Esperanza feel she must work in the sheds with the older women?

         So she can work off money to pay for the bills and to help get Abuelita over to camp.

Week Four:  pages 179-233

1.Esperanza learns that she misses some very specific things about her mother.  What are they, and why does this surprise her?

It surprises her because she hasn't been around her mother very much.  She misses her mother's smile, the way she laughed, and the way she walked into a room. 

2.Josefina and Hortensia tell Esperanza and Miguel to shop only at the Japanese store.   Why?  What does Alfonso mean when he tells Miguel Mr. Yakota is “getting rich on other peoples bad manners”?

          Mr. Yakota doesn't care what race people are when they come to his store, so a lot of people come there.

 What Alfanso means is that when other store owners are predudice against their race they go to Mr. Yakota and then lose business.

3.Why do some of the farm workers feel they must strike while others do not?  As a group, decide whether or not you would choose to strike and then explain why you made that decision.

                       I wouldn't strike because I would be there to work and make money for my family, not to be going on strike. 

4.What is the reaction of your group to the bus coming to pick up the strikers and deport them from the country?  Is it fair to deport people who are citizens?  Does it seem right to tear up someone’s immigration papers?

    I don't think it is fair that they did that because they don't have much of a choice about jobs and I think they left Mexico for a couple of reasons so that is kind of rude to rip the papers.  I don't really think it's fair to deport them justbecause  they are Mexicans, they wouldn't go and deport white American citizens.  They are only deporting the Mexican citizens because they came from Mexico and they can send them back.

5.Prejudice is an evil thing.  Unfortunately, we experience it in our daily lives.  Identify some examples of discrimination that Esperanza and the other people who live at the camp must endure.

     People thinking there uneducated and think there dirty because they have to work in the fields.  Some examples are  grocery store owners who think they're better than the Mexicans and most of the other people in L.A.

6.Miguel tries to reassure Esperanza about the injustice she sees in the world around her.  Is he successful?  Explain the outcome.  Do you think this is related to the missing money orders?

   He isn't successful, and that is because she thinks how it is so unfair how the whites are to her people. Esperanza told Miguel that he is still a peasant, so he got mad and ran away and didn't come back.  Maybe, because he was mad at Esperanza and took them to get back at her and thought of the idea to bring Abuelita to the U.S.  In a way Miguel did succeed because at the end of the book when he brought Abulita esperanza said she had hope.

7.On the ride to California, Esperanza refuses to allow a peasant girl to touch her treasured doll; yet later she offers to give the doll to Isabel.  What has brought .

 Esperanza has learned that she is poor too, that nothing is wrong with poor people, and that nothing bad would happen to her doll. 

       Week Five:  pages 234-262

1.How  does the situation with the missing money orders work out?

 Esperanza Finds out Miguel used it for work, but he brought Abuelita to America

2.In what way does the crocheted blanket mirror Esperanza’s experiences?

   Her life seemed like mountains and valleys. When some good or bad news came she either added some stitches up the mountain or down to the valley.

3.After reading the book do you think the title Esperanza Rising is appropriate?  Explain.

 Yes, because she rose from a rich life. She wasn't happy when she came to the camp and now she is happy even though she had a better life before.

4.Describe the ways in which the character of Esperanza has changed or grown from the beginning of the book.  Use examples from the story to support your answer.

 In the beggining she wasn't worried about anything,untill her father died. Then she became a brat.

Later on she understands that she's now a peasent.

5.  Complete the table.