What is the main theme of Esperanza Rising?
On one important level Esperanza Rising is a heartwarming story of a young girl who learns the importance of love and sacrifice for family and friends, but on another level it is also a lesson in the cultural as well as personal struggles that poor families, especially immigrants and farm laborers, must experience.
Why did Esperanza try to kill herself?
Esperanza attempts to commit suicide. That’s what she gets for telling him a suicide story when he probably wanted to get his mind off it. Estevan tells Taylor that he and Esperanza had a daughter named Ismene.
What is Turtle’s first word?
A little later, as Turtle and Taylor help Mattie plant the garden, Turtle says her first word: “bean.” One night, Lou Ann tells Taylor about her fear that the horrible things she imagines will happen in real life.
Where does Lou Ann get a job?
the Red Hot Mama’s salsa factory
How did Lou Ann’s father die?
Taylor looks at Lou Ann lying flat on the couch and thinks about Lou Ann’s father, who was killed when his tractor rolled over and flattened him.
Why does Angel leave Lou Ann?
When Lou Ann got pregnant, she stopped having sex with him. Convinced that his amputation repulsed Lou Ann, Angel accused her of wanting to sleep with other people. Lou Ann feels that Angel no longer likes her or anyone else. The narrator describes Halloween, the day on which Angel leaves Lou Ann.
What is special about the purple beans that Mattie is growing in her garden?
The beans that grow in Mattie’s garden are also transplants from another place, coming from China. These bean trees will become very meaningful to Turtle, another immigrant to Tucson.
How does Mattie Help Taylor?
One day, Taylor confesses her fear, and Mattie calms Taylor a little by explaining that tire explosions are relative to their size and that tractor tires explode more dramatically than the car tires her store services. Lou Ann watches Turtle and Dwayne Ray while Taylor works.
What is the narrator’s real name how did she get her nickname?
What is the narrator’s real name? How did she get her nickname? Her real name is Marietta. She gets her nickname of Missy because when her mom used to clean houses, Taylor used to call everyone Miss…
What happened to turtle in The Bean Trees?
Lou Ann tells her something has happened to Turtle. Turtle was in the park with Edna Poppy, who was baby-sitting her, when a man attacked Turtle. Because of her blindness, Edna does not know exactly what happened, but she says that she heard struggling and swung her cane in the direction of the noise.
What did Edna poppy hit the bad man with?
What did Edna Poppy his the “bad man” with? Her cane.
Where do Mattie Taylor Estevan and Esperanza go?
Taylor decides that she and Turtle will go to Oklahoma to find Turtle’s relatives so that Taylor can adopt her. Taylor will also take Estevan and Esperanza to a safe house in Oklahoma.
Where does Taylor take turtle after the doctor’s?
Tucson, Arizona
Why did Estevan and Esperanza leave Guatemala?
The government wanted to keep them alive since they had valuable information, so it took Ismene to bait Esperanza and Estevan into handing over the names. Esperanza and Estevan chose saving their fellow union members’ lives over getting their daughter back, and they fled to the United States.
How did Newt Hardbine die?
Newt Hardbine and Taylor Greer Newt dies young and tragically after a life of hardship and abuse (including his own abuse of his wife). And that’s an end that Taylor is spared because of Alice Greer.
Why is Lou Ann angry with Taylor?
Lou Ann, surprisingly, reminds Taylor that a mother can never shield their child from everything. Yet Lou Ann is angry at Taylor for leaving Turtle with the police while she chased the bird out of the kitchen. Taylor is too unsure of her abilities as a mother to reach out to Turtle.
Why is Missy Taylor nervous about putting air in her tires?
why is the narrator afraid of putting air in tires? because she saw a tractor tire blow up and throw Newt Hardbine’s father over the top of the standard oil sign. Who is the narrator? she writes as if she’s speaking to you.
Where does Lou Ann live?
Who is Lou Ann in The Bean Trees?
Lou Ann Ruiz
Who is Esperanza in The Bean Trees?
Estevan and Esperanza are Guatemalan refugees, and together they stand as the book’s clearest representations of the violence and injustice suffered by Central American citizens throughout the 1980s. Estevan worked as an English teacher in Guatemala City, and was a member of an underground teacher’s union.
What do the Bean Trees symbolize?
Beans and Bean Trees “Bean,” Turtle’s first word, symbolizes the promise that, like a dried-up seed that grows, a mistreated woman may thrive if given enough care. The bean trees, another name for the wisteria vine that Turtle spots in Dog Doo Park, symbolize transformation, a spot of life in the midst of barrenness.
What is Turtle’s real name in The Bean Trees?
April