Esperanza Rising Audiobook Free By Pam Munoz Ryan
Esperanza Rising is a young adult historical fiction audiobook by Pam Muñoz Ryan. The author eloquently portrays the Mexican workers’ plight in this abundant and passionate novel that gives voice to those who have historically been denied one.
Plot Summary
Esperanza Ortega possesses all the treasures a young girl could want: fancy dresses; a beautiful home filled with servants in the bountiful region of Aguascalientes, Mexico; and the promise of one day rising to Mama’s position and presiding over all of El Rancho de las Rosas.
But a sudden tragedy shatters that dream, forcing Esperanza and Mama to flee to California and settle in a Mexican farm labor camp. There they confront the challenges of hard work, acceptance by their own people, and economic difficulties brought on by the Great Depression.
When Mama falls ill from Valley Fever and a strike for better working conditions threatens to uproot their new life, Esperanza must relinquish her hold on the past and learn to embrace a future ripe with the riches of family and community.
Why you should listen to Esperanza Rising Audiobook right now?
The story is narrated by Trini Alvarado whose voice makes us delve into the rich culture of Mexico in which the main character finds herself after the reversal of her fortune. At the start, the presentation of the luxury life that Esperanza was living makes us more sentimental about her when we observe her downfall because of a certain calamity. Her appearance from top to toe changes which are quite wonderfully depicted and also her realization that now she has to work for her family instead of making herself ready to become a Ma’m.
The adaptation of the change by the youth makes us praise the main character. The story has a lot of things common with Our California Audiobook which includes the scene of the poor tents and also the culture and the lower class. Esperanza is like the boy in the story Echo Audiobook who has lost her way. In her case, the way means the way to glory or the crown which was rightfully hers. She struggling as there is no other way of survival anymore for the young and arrogant girl. The story also very brilliantly describes the way of living and thinking of the two classes.
The main character very nicely fits herself in both in order to make her molding nature that improves as the story progresses. The story and the characters are quite excellently presented throughout the whole tale. Also, the village background also makes us remember the house of our own grandparents as well, the past that we commonly share.
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Pam Munoz Ryan – Esperanza Rising is now available in audible format, almost 4 hrs and 42 mins long, the narration by Trini Alvarado is so enticing that you get hooked instantly.
Other similar stories by Pam Munoz Ryan include The Dreamer and Becoming Naomi Leon worth reading as having some similar story effects in them.