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Las Uvas
Las Papayas
Los Higos
Los Melones
Misc. Language Arts
100
Esperanza's favorite time of the year
What is harvesting of grapes?
100
The importance of Las Papayas
What is Esparanza's father would order them for her on her birthday?
100
The reason Esperanza gets lauged at for saying, "And..and I could work, too".
What is becaue she has never worked a day in her life?
100
The reason Esperanza becomes "irritated" with Isabel.
What is because Isabell kept asking questions?
100
The mood of the reader is created depending on...
What is setting?
200
A fiesta of transition for young girls in Mexican Culture
What is a Quinceanera?
200
Papa's final gift to Esperanza
What is the doll?
200
The tragedy that falls upon El Rancho de las Rosas, and the person responsible.
What is fire burns it to the ground, and Tio Luis is responsible?
200
A place where you had to live in a tent, sleep on dirt floors and cook outside, and a place where they have water, electricity and a kitchen.
What is/are El Centro and Arvin?
200
The part of the plot that changes life for the main character(s)
What is the climax?
300
Esperanza pricks her finger. This is a hint of danger to come. A language arts term for this "hint" is
What is foreshowding?
300
Tio Luis' reason for wearing the belt buckle?
What is because he wants to be in charge of the land now that Papa is no longer there?
300
When Abuelita says, "right now, you are in the bottom of the valley...but soon [she]will be at the top of a mountain again", she means...
What is right now you are struggling, you are in a low place because of what has happened, but soon you will be on top again, happy and peaceful?
300
The reason the Filipinos, Okies, Japanese and Mexican workers live and work separate.
What is because the owners don't want them coming together in protest for higher wages and better housing?
300
The part of the plot where the conflict begins to rise
What is rising action?
400
Why is Esperanza's grandmother so special? (Capricious)
What is she can have dinner with royalty and turn right around and read and sing to the birds in the fields?
400
Who wants to marry mama and why?
What/Who is Tio Luis wants to marry Mama becasue he will be able to benefit from her reputation, and be able to keep the land and the workers?
400
Esperanza resentfully smashed the figs beneath her feat. Resentfully means...
What is to not want to do something?
400
The reason Esperanza doesn't like Marta.
What is because she and Miguel talk alot, and she insults Esperanza and Papa?
400
Represents something more/deeper than what we see
What is symbol/symbolism?
500
Why can't Miguel and Esperanza marry
What is because they are separated by a deep river?
500
Miguel's plan
What is to flee from Mexico to California (USA)?
500
How the setting of Los Higos (the figs) impacts Esperanza.
What is the setting creates a feeling of anger, sadness, and resentment in Esperanza?
500
The significance/importance of Esperanza's traveling in the wagon, on the train, in the back of the truck.
What is it shows the reality of her life changing. She no longer has the finer things in life now that Papa is gone. She is now among the "common", "poor" people?
500
Man vs Man, Man vs Nature, Man vs Himslef (two tyes of conflict)
What is internal and external conflict?