Characters | setting | important events | proposal | California |
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who is the story about?
Esperanza
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Where did Esperanza live?
El Rancho de las Rosas
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How was Esperanza's birthday?
It was like a funeral
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Who did Tio Luis propose to?
Ramona Ortega (Mama)
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What did Esperanza learn?
She learns how to clean care for the babies etc
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Who is the member of the family they had to left behind?
Abuelita
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Where and when did the servants found papa dead?
It was at night in the crops
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How did the lawyer divide Papa's fortune?
The income from the grapes and the house was for Esperanza and Mama and the rest was for Tio Luis
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How many times did he ask her?
2 and she answers 3 times
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Who showed Esperanza lots of things?
Isabel
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Who worked hard for her daughter and mom and also got ill at the end?
Ramona Ortega(Mama)
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where and when did Tio Luis propose to Mama?
In the bedroom or office of Papa in daytime
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How did they know it was Tio Luis who put the house on fire?
They knew it Because Tio Luis wanted to marry Mama and he also came to the cabins and said how awful was what happened and that he didn't want that to happen to the cabins too
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Why did Tio Luis want to marry her?
So he could be major
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Who Did Esperanza meet on her journey?
A little girl who wanted her doll, Lots of peasants and a woman who was talking to her mom about her difficult life and end up giving her 1 hen or chicken
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Who's death continues the awful events?
Sixto Ortega( papa)
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When did the house get on fire?
At night interrupting everyone sleep
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Why did Mama say yes to Tio Luis's proposal?
Because she wanted him to think that she was going to stay in Mexico so then they can escape
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Why did Tio Luis set the house on fire?
Because he wanted Ramona to say yes to his proposal
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Who did Esperanza meet that she didn't like at all?
marta
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Who makes difficult mama's and Esperanza's life?
Tio Luis
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How is the state called where Ramona and Esperanza moved?
California
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Why did Esperanza and her mom decide to leave for another country?
Because they wanted to escape from Tio Luis
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How come he had the power to set the house on fire?
Since the house is on his land he could destroy it even if it is Ramonas property
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What was Esperanza responsible for when Mama got really ill?
She worked and she had to pay the bills
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