What Happened to Tio Luis Tolu Olajide ELA 2 Ms. Pappas 15,Dec.2015 My Question is: Whatever happened to Tio Luis? Write a short story or newspaper article about what happened to Tio Luis. Did he run and win the election? Did he marry someone else? What happened in Mexico while Esperanza was in America? After reading this book have you ever what ever happened to Tio Luis? Well you will know after, reading this newspaper article. After, Esperanza and her family moved into America, Tio Luis was furious he asked everyone In town “where and what happened” to Mama. He never found an answer to what happened to them. He ran for the election , married a woman that was rich and had a lot of money. Everyone thought that “ Tio Luis was using his wife for money”. …show more content…
Tio Luis wasn’t really good at the job but his wife’s father helped him alot. Later, He lost all his land and he became poor. Then, His Wife left him. He tried his hardest to work back up to the top but he didn’t get on top until ….. 3 years later he remarried a different lady. He married this rich educated Women that had everyone loved. She was a beautiful woman and her name was Hope Simmons. She smelled like Beautiful, and elegant Strawberry. She had very clean, smooth skin. Everyone wanted to vote for her, at first, she wasn’t ready to marry anyone because her husband died like Mama In the book “ Esperanza Rising”. Then, When Tio Luis asked her out on a date she said “YES”!. Tio Luis was so happy and he felt accomplished as a person. Tio Luis Felt like that because he thought It was His first, step into becoming Mayor. After, that date Tio Luis and Hope built a relationship and talked a lot to each other. One year later, Tio Luis proposed to Hope at a National Basketball game In Mexico. It was on the JumboTron So everyone saw It. Hope was so happy she screamed “ OF COURSE” To Tio Luis. Later, In the relationship Tio Luis ran for election. Everyone voted for Tio Luis because they loved Hope and
Being an immigrant, you have to leave your old life behind,and you have to leave all your memories behind. In the book Esperanza Rising Pam Munoz Ryan, she and her family were forced to move to California, and she had to leave all the memories from Papa and her home in Mexico behind. Although Esperanza faced many different challenges, the hardest ones were dealing with Mama having valley fever and fighting with Marta and the other strikers.
Esperanza finally comes to the conclusion that she does not need to fit into the mold of Mango Street. She also realizes that by making her own world, she can do bigger and better things and come back to help others on Mango Street. Not everybody can fit into the same mold and Esperanza made her own. . Esperanza leaving shows that she is a leader and hopefully she will have the others from Mango Street follow in her path. Maybe other people will fit into Esperanza’s mold or they will use her as an example. Esperanza used the other women as an example to make something of herself so all of the negative people she meets and has in her life, they made her the person she wanted to be.
Esperanza meets up with 3 elderly sisters at a wake. One of the older women affirms Esperanza’s secret wish to leave Mango Street, but makes her promise that she will come back one day. Esperanza tells Alicia that she feels like she doesn’t have a home but Alicia convinces her that like it or not that Mango Street is her home and no matter what she will have to come back to make Mango Street a better place because the mayor is
A debutante’s life came at a price; for the 16 year-old Dolores it was an arranged, loveless marriage to lawyer Jaime Del Rio. Jaime was 18 years her senior, his family one of the oldest and most influential in Mexico. Their wealth allowed for a European honeymoon, where they were invited to dine with the Spanish Royal family. The honeymoon morphed into a three year romp, with Dolores delighting in voice and dance lessons at stately Madrid and Paris schools. In 1921, the couple returned to Mexico City, Jaime intent on advancing his career whil...
Esperanza, the most liberated of the sisters, devoted her life to make other people’s lives better. She became a reporter and later on died while covering the Gulf Crisis. She returned home, to her family as a spirit. At first, she spoke through La Llorona, a messenger who informed La Loca that her sister has died. All her family members saw her. She appeared to her mother as a little girl who had a nightmare and went near to her mother for comfort. Caridad had conversations with her about politics and La Loca talked to her by the river behind their home.
The emotional letter that Juan left for his mother might be one of the most emotional scenes in the documentary. The pure emotions that the letter was written by Juan to her mother leaves the audience with the bonds and emotions felt between the kids and families. Juan Carlos’s father abandoned the family years ago and left to New York, consequently Juan believe it is his responsibility to provide for his family. He also wants to find his father in New York and confronts him about why he has forgotten about them. The story of Juan is not just about migration of children, but also the issue of family separation. The documentary does not dehumanize but rather bring the humane and sensitive lens to the story of Juan where the human drama that these young immigrants and their families live. Juan Carlos is not the first of Esmeralda’s sons to leave for the United states, his nine-year-old brother Francisco was smuggled into California one month earlier. Francisco now lives with Gloria, his grandmother, who paid a smuggler $3,500 to bring him to Los Angeles, California. Once Juan Carlos is in the shelter for child migrants his mother eagerly awaits him outside. After she sees him she signs a paper that says if Juan Carlos tries to travel again, he will be sent to a foster home.
The story begins with Titas birth prematurely when Mama Elena was chopping onions. Tita grows up with Nacha the most dominant figure in her life, and follows Mama Elenas routine of cooking, cleaning and sewing. At every incident she can, Mama Elena criticizes Tita and even beats her if she tries to speak up. One day Tita tells her mother that Pedro wants to come and ask for her hand, but according to the family tradition she cannot marry because she is the youngest daughter. Mama Elena tells Pedro he can marry Rosaura- one of her older daughters, and Pedro agrees to the arrangement just to be closer to his true love- Tita.
Esperanza builds her strength off the mishaps that occur while living on Mango Street. In the vignettes, Esperanza describes some very interesting things that take place on Mango Street. She recalls a time when Sally befriended her and told Esperanza to leave her alone with the boys. Esperanza felt out of place and was very uncomfortable and very ashamed to be in that situation. She wanted more from life than that, so she left the scene.
Esperanza begins as a very wealthy girl in Mexico, and doesn’t think about how lucky she is to have the privileges that she has. She can have almost anything she wants and has to do little work. Esperanza barely even thinks about the lower classes. They are not part of her life. But when her ranch is burned down and her father killed, she has to leave Mexico and enter the United States as an illegal immigrant. But by doing so, she is forced into contact with many people far less wealthy and well-off than her. When Esperanza enters Zacatecas to board the train, she is surprised that they are not in the fancy section. Instead, they are in a car with peasants and beggars. “Esperanza had never been so close to so many peasants before. When she went to school, all of her friends were like her. When she went to town, she was escorted and hurried around any beggars. And the peasants always kept their distance. That was simply the way it was. She couldn’t help but wonder if they would steal her things.” (p. 67). Esperanza has an obvious suspicion of the peasants during her train ride. She tells her mother that she cannot travel in this car , and that the people didn’t look trustworthy. A little bit into the trainride ...
Days are passed, Tio Luis comes to meet Ramona again and at that time she says “YES”. Her reason for saying yes is that she has a plan. Her plan was that on the same night, she will run away with her family. The same day, Abuelita's foot gets fractured and she can’t walk. Then they all decide not to take Abuelita with them and they will bring Abuelita later on. The night has come, and they all leave for the United States. On the way, Ramona was thinking about how Tio Luis will react when he will get to know that they are gone. They reach the United States. There, they go to a camp and decide to stay there. They meet Isabel and her family there. Isabel and her family gives space to Esperanza and her family to live with them. They are living in a camp so they HAVE to work. The next morning, Josefina, Isabel’s mom, tells Ramona and the others about the
One way in which the theme appears in the book is after Papa dies, instead of everyone helping their family, people target them, specifically Tio Luis. He tried to break Esperanza’s family even
Esperanza, a Chicano with three sisters and one brother, has had a dream of having her own things since she was ten years old. She lived in a one story flat that Esperanza thought was finally a "real house". Esperanza’s family was poor. Her father barely made enough money to make ends meet. Her mother, a homemaker, had no formal education because she had lacked the courage to rise above the shame of her poverty, and her escape was to quit school. Esperanza felt that she had the desire and courage to invent what she would become.
Nazario begins her literacy non-fiction by describing the journey of Enrique through Tegucigalpa, Honduras to Laredo, Texas. He faces lots of obstacles throughout the journey like getting robbed by bandits, beaten up by gangs, running away
Each part contains short stories within them. These all consist of a heartwarming girl, Esperanza,who matures into a woman and how she faces these gender roles through love and violence. Cisneros alters the name Esperanza with Chayo, Rachel, Lupe, Ines, and Clemenica, to explain differences between them along with to give the story more lewd effectiveness. Sandra Cisnero's main focus throughout the novel was identity. Cisneros starts off in the first section (“My Lucy Friend Who Smells Like Corn), narrating as a young child and further matures into the final section (There was a Man, There was a Woman)....
Although Esperanza is constantly reaffirming that she wants to move away from Mango Street, we know by the end novel that she will one day return to help those who will not have the opportunities Esperanza has had in her life. Indeed, in the closing pages Esperanza admits that she cannot escape Mango Street. She can never again call it home, but it has influenced her dreams, formed her personality, and she has learned valuable life lessons from its inhabitants. That is why, explains Esperanza, she tells stories about the house on Mango Street, revealing the beauty amidst dirty streets and unveiling her true inner self, the peace of knowing that her “home is where her heart is.”