Esperanza’s Temporary Situation In Esperanza Rising, Pam Munoz Ryan tells of a conversation between Esperanza and Isabel. She told Isabel that her current situation is temporary. After Esperanza and her mother and
Alfonso’s family arrived to America, in their way to the camp in Central Valley they stopped to take a lunch. Esperanza was very tired, she wandered away from the group and walked to an overlook. Esperanza remembered what Papa had taught her when she was little. She stretched out on her stomach and reached her arms to the side, hugging the earth. But she could not hear the heartbeat. That was the first reason that Esperanza’s frustrated situation and she feels that she is not belong to this earth (91).
Second, Esperanza fells her