Immigration involves moving from our home country to another in order to start over and have a better life. In Esperanza Rising, the book is about papa's death, and them moving on to another country and starting over. Then, Esperanza’s mother gets sick and then the 2 twins get sick from a fruit. Esperanza did not know how to do a lot of things and she handles and deals with problems. After all, Esperanza faced some problems and challenges, some of her challenges were… facing Mama being sick and when her mama got sick she had to work for her. When Esperanza had to sweep the platform she had told the people she knew how but she lied, because she didn’t know how to do it.

The first challenge that Esperanza faced was not knowing how to do daily …show more content…
Finally, she stood up and nodded, which was Hortensia’s signal to wrap the towel around her. Esperanza went to one of the washtubs, put her hands out to her sides, and waited. Josefina looked at Hortensia and raised her eyebrows. Isabel said, “Esperanza, what are you doing”? Mama walked over to Esperanza and said softly, “I’ve been thinking that you are old enough to bathe yourself, don’t you think”? Esperanza quickly dropped her arms and remembered Marta’s taunting voice saying, “No one will be waiting on you here”. The pages I used for my evidence was pgs. #125 and 126.

The second challenge Esperanza faced was the dust storms caused Mama to become sick with Valley Fever. This was a challenge for Esperanza, because she had servants back in her home country and in California she had no servants. This kinda goes back to the first paragraph of when she didn’t know how to do anything. Also, she didn’t know how to take care of somebody, because of the servants. “In a week, they finished cutting the grapes. Then while they finished packing the grapes, they were already talking about preparing for potatoes. The camp routine repeated itself like the regimented rows in the fields. Very little