![]() We were born servants here and no matter how hard we work we will always be servants. “My father and I have lost faith in our country. Ramona eventually recovers and returns to the company farm, demonstrating her resilience and her commitment to striving for hope even in her darkest moments. Ramona’s journey dovetails with Esperanza’s to show that while being ruled by one’s pain and grief is not conducive to hope and rebirth, neither is hiding one’s true feelings and smothering them down deep. When Ramona falls ill with Valley Fever in the wake of a terrible dust storm, the depression and pain she has been ignoring ever since Sixto’s death resurface, and she is hospitalized. ![]() Though Esperanza is unhappy with (and even at times disgusted by) the conditions on the company farm they travel to in California, Ramona accepts her new life with grace, grit, and gusto-at least for a while. She is a woman of strong values who refuses to capitulate to blackmail and coercion in the wake of her husband’s death, and instead makes the decision that will allow her and her daughter to live freely, even if it means living in poverty. ![]() Esperanza’s mother Ramona is a spirited woman who would do anything for the good of her family. ![]()
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