Pobre Ana is a story about a girl from California who has a lot of problems in her life. She has problems with both her family and friends. She also has probems with the food her family has and her clothes. This, however, all changes when she goes on a trip to Mexico. When she arrives at the airport, she is met with her Mexican family. Here, she meets three amazing friends. Susanna, Patricia, and Roberto. Spending time with them makes her realize how good of a life she has and how fortunate she actually is. She is sad to leave them, but she is grateful of the experience she got to have. When she gets back to California, her perspective on everything changes. She is happy with her house, clothes, family, and friends. In her eyes her life is
enable her to surmount the many obstacles she would face. She would endure the untimely death of both parents as a teenager and would be forced to raise her
feels free and discovers many new things in life that she has not noticed before.
This novel is a story of a Chicano family. Sofi, her husband Domingo together with their four daughters – Esperanza, Fe, Caridad, and Loca live in the little town of Tome, New Mexico. The story focuses on the struggles of Sofi, the death of her daughters and the problems of their town. Sofi endures all the hardships and problems that come her way. Her marriage is deteriorating; her daughters are dying one by one. But, she endures it all and comes out stronger and more enlightened than ever. Sofi is a woman that never gives up no matter how poorly life treats her. The author- Ana Castillo mixes religion, super natural occurrences, sex, laughter and heartbreak in this novel. The novel is tragic, with no happy ending but at the same time funny and inspiring. It is full of the victory of the human spirit. The names of Sofi’s first three daughters denote the three major Christian ideals (Hope, Faith and Charity).
The story revolves around the reality that Mexican girls are raised to find a man and get married. They have a mind set about having a man in their l...
makes each of them aware of the part they had played that lead to her
... grow. Though God she can learn to love again. With the help of friends, she can establish trust. Praying to God brings life back into her eyes, and over time she can learn to forgive the world as well as the people that have wronged her.
up to date with society. She has many things that are wrong to her in
Esperanza explains how Mamacita “sits all day by the window and plays the Spanish country” (77). Esperanza expresses the emotions that Mamacita feels since she is homesick and doesn’t fit into the new society she was brought into. Instead of shaming Mamacita for the way she acts and the way she feels, Esperanza takes into consideration the hardship of being a person of color in an environment that doesn’t accept her for who she
her marriage as she wants it to be perfect al most. She is also very
...ssions to strengthen and guide her through the painful loss of mother and life by living everyday as if it were her last.
kindness of strangers, but all of them have abused and abandoned her. In the end, even her
to her progressive education for the happiness that she earns at the end of the
...s the rest of her life to herself. She may once again weep for him, but ultimately her freedom overshadows this.
able to discovery that there is more to her life than being a passive and untrue person.
that she is a better person now she is in search of a good relationship with