Get Annual Plans at a discount when you buy 2 or more! An interview with Augustus Martinez and two with Jose Flores discuss work in the fields and life in the camps as well as labor issues and discrimination against Mexicans. Where do they take a bath or go to the restroom? She is surrounded by wealth and a loving family. To make up for her daughters rudeness, Ramona fashions a yarn doll for the little peasant girl. Ask students to make lists of the pros and cons to help them understand what was at stake for Ramona and Esperanza when they had to decide whether to stay in Aguascalientes or flee to California. People in the camps are very much aware of each others business, as Isabel tells Esperanza, and news of injustice and disparities in workers lives travels from one community to another. What do the differences in the living conditions at these camps suggest about the differences among the social status of these different groups of laborers? What are the three main characters in Esperanza Rising? Their house is on fire. At the time of the story, bandits, some of them former revolutionaries, were still active, especially against the large landowners like Esperanza's family. Read the last sentence of the novel and explain how it relates to the book's themes.