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“But some of them are citizens” (Esperanza) “It doesn’t matter. They are causing problems for the government. They are talking about forming a farm workers’ union and the growers don’t like that.” 

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“Families don’t want to be separated from their loved ones and usually go with them. That is the idea. They call it voluntary deportation. But it is not much of a choice.” 

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“Those are Filipinos. They live in their own camp. There’s a Japanese camp too. We all live separate and work separate. They don’t mix us.” (Pg. 98) 

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When Esperanza pricked her finger with the rose, the blood that came from the rose prick symbolized a bad omen.

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Migrant Workers - portrayed the struggles migrants had to go through (i.e. poor living conditions, dust bowl, diseases, abuse)

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wealthy/privileged -- Esperanza is sheltered and doesn't know how to adapt to the farm left when she lived as a "princess" at her ranch

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The ending did not feel like it provided a proper closure for everyone. The grandma joins them in America, but there wasn't an expansion on it. Also, we don't know what happens to Marta. It was an unsatisfying ending.

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Striker:  Somebody who has joined others in ceasing work in protest against working conditions or to compel an employer to accept their demands.  "Esperanza had grown so accustomed to the strikers' chanting while she packed asparagus that the moment it stopped, she looked up from her work as if something way wrong" (pg. 204).

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“’A dust storm, like nothing you have seen before,’” said Melina. ‘They are awful.’ Esperanza looked out the window. Thousands of acres of tilled soil were becoming food for la tormenta and the sky was turning into a brown swirling fog.” (pg 147)

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"They boarded and waited an hour for all the passengers to get through immigration. Esperanza looked out the iwndow. Across the tracks, several groups of people were prodded onto another train headed back toward Mexico." (pg. 35)

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of strikes by mostly Mexican and Filipino agricultural workers throughout the San Joaquin Valley From 1931-1941 “We are going to strike in two weeks. At the peak of the cotton. For higher wages and better housing!” (pg. 132)

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“But now that she was a young woman, she understood that Miguel was the housekeeper’s son and she was the ranch owner’s daughter and between them ran a deep river. Esperanza stood on one side and Miguel stood on the other and the river could never be crossed.” (pg 18). 

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“I hear that in the United States, you do not need una palanca. That even the poorest man can become rich if he works hard enough.” (pg.75)

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Worst economic crisis in modern history Lasted from 1929-1939 Esperanza, her mother, and their former household servants flee to California with no money during the Great Depression, where they find agricultural work that pays very little 

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Aguascalientes, Mexico
“The August sun promised a dry afternoon in Aguascalientes, Mexico.” (pg. 7)
San Joaquin Valley, California
“As they rounded a curve, it appeared as if the mountains pulled away from each other, like a curtain opening on a stage, revealing the San Joaquin Valley beyond." (pg. 39)
Farm fields