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The Plot Line for Esperanza Rising
Introduction
In Esperanza Rising a girl named Esperanza who lives in Aguascalientes, Mexico around the 1930’s is shown to have a good life. Her dad owns a vineyard, a mother who cares about her, and a grandma who loves her. She has everything you could ask for tons of servants, plenty of toys, and basically the 1930’s equivalent of all things cool. In The Mask of Zorro Diego de la Vega is a rich Spanish Nobleman by day and vigilante by night. He like Esperanza has everything a family which consists of a wife and a young daughter, lots of servants, and plenty of land.
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Esperanza’s rich and loving father was murdered by bandits. Esperanza and what is left of her family are threaten by her dad’s wicked stepbrothers that may have had a hand in his death. In order to get away from their evil grasp they ran to the US of A. Working as plantation workers with their servants. Amidst all this she had to leave behind her grandma due to injuries probably caused by her wicked stepsons. Also like Esperanza Diego de la Vega’s family was taken away from him, his daughter stolen, wife murdered, and sent to a Mexican equivalent of Guantanamo Bay to plot his revenge.

Rising action
Esperanza has to learn how sweep, care for babies, and take care for her mom that has valley fever who need to go to the hospital. She is having a hard time to adjust having living a life envied by princesses to a life that is hard not to pity upon, her bratty side is shown. Unlike Esperanza who deals with cleaning Diego escapes from prison with only one objective find his daughter, but his got sidetracked only to find a man who he help back in the days when he was Zorro named Alejandro. As Hollywood would have it this man’s brother was murdered and now he is plotting to avenge him. So Diego takes him in and trains him to become a new Zorro. While training Diego makes Alejandro go to a ball and tells him to spy on Don Rafael who stole Diego’s daughter and basically killed his wife.

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