Esperanza Rising

Esperanza Rising was easy to read because the text size was big compared to other literature books. I can know that Esperanza Rising was translated or written by a Spanish speaking author because there are some of Spanish words in the sentences.

I was really sad when I read about the death of Esperanza’s father on Esperanza’s birthday. The death of Esperanza’s father must be a trick of her greedy uncle, Tio Louis. I was so proud of Esperanza and her mother for deciding not to marry Tio Louis just to get money and continue living in a luxury life. Esperanza and her mother chose to live together even though they do not have enough money and do not have a luxury life.

I do not like the ending line. I wished the happy ending was longer. Esperanza and her mother all struggle so hard and spent almost their time for working hard and overcoming the fatal illness. It was really long line. Ryan described their hardships for about 250 pages. However, the happy ending was only 30 to 50 pages. I feel so bad about Ryan finishing the end so quickly with a simple words, not describing how happy they are and how happily they lived from that time. I was so sad while reading the book, the 30 pages happy ending could not change my sad feeling to happy so suddenly.

Esperanza Rising reminds me of Mexico’s revolt and immigrant situation in United States. I heard about the revolt of Mexico in world history with another countries revolt because of politician’s corruption, famine, or confusing economy. As far as immigration is concerned, I now know that there are lots of immigrants in United States from Mexico. They were treated very badly and received low wages, even though they worked the same number of hours, and they had a poor reside system. Although it is fiction, I think that mistreatment of immigrant from Mexico might happen and can happen even now for any immigrant in America.