My book report was on “Esperanza Rising” by Pam Muñoz...

My book report was on â€Å"Esperanza Rising† by Pam Muà ±oz Ryan. The genre of this book is Historical Fiction. The publisher is Scholastic. It has a total of 253 pages plus the author’s notes. Esperanza Rising was published in the year of 2000. Some unusual facts about this book was that it had some Spanish words in it but English after so you know what it means. This book is a Pure Belpre Award winning book. The Pure Belpre Award means excellent portrayal of Latino experience in childrens literature. I chose this book to read because the author seemed familiar and the cover of the book really caught my attention including the title. The novel starts out with the main character and protagonist, Esperanza, the spoiled six-year old little girl†¦show more content†¦The other main character would be Miguel. He’s the son of Alfonso and Hortensia, who both work for Esperanza’s family as their servants. They both grew up together on the ranch as kids. The major conflict in this story starts when a group of bandits captures her papa and kill him and his two evil greedy stepbrothers take over the land and tries to make mama marry Tio Luis. When she disagrees, they do everything in their power to make their life difficult. So as the story unfolds, she ends up marrying him. But they come up with a plan to cross the border and go to the United States so they can work and get money, and most importantly get away from the horrible life in Mexico because of the stepbrothers. They all go to California except Abuelita because she wasn’t feeling well to get a better opportunity in advance. The plot starts out with Esperanza and her papa spending time together. He tells her that the earth is alive and if you listen closely, you can hear its heartbeat. Esperanza was impatient though. But he tells her you have to stay still and be quiet. Papa tells her â€Å"wait a little while and the fruit will fall into your hand.† This was the main theme of the story because it means when you wait, something good will come. After that she hears it and gets happy. As you read the book, the saying gets repeated. The rising action of the book would be when papa got murdered by the bandits. The conflict resolution would