6/5/2023 0 Comments Esperanza rising by pam munozPapa’s older stepbrothers, the shady Luis and Marco, come by the house to offer their good wishes, but Esperanza is wary of their presence. While the family sits up and waits, Esperanza’s Abuelita comforts her with a crocheting lesson, in which she urges Esperanza not to be afraid of starting over in the face of a mistake. Hortensia sends her husband Alfonso-the boss of all the field workers and Sixto’s good friend-out with Miguel to look for Papa. When he doesn’t arrive, though, Esperanza and her mother grow worried. The day before Esperanza’s birthday, at the start of the grape harvest, she picks flowers in her father’s rose garden and waits for him to come home from a day in the fields. She and her family enjoy a lush, beautiful life full of happiness and plenty, and Esperanza hopes that she will never have to leave her family’s ranch-even as she grows increasingly aware of an invisible “ river” that divides her from others, such as her housemaid Hortensia’s teenage son, Miguel. It is 1930, and in Aguascalientes, Mexico, the pain and tumult of the Mexican Revolution has at last begun to subside-or at least the sheltered Esperanza believes. Thirteen-year-old Esperanza Ortega lives a life of abundance and luxury on her father Sixto’s sprawling vineyard, El Rancho de las Rosas.
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