Please Describe Estrella's Character and explain how she changes in Chapter 2.
What is your reaction to Estrella's world/environment? How is it relevant to today?
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1. How do you think Estrella sees herself at the end of the novel?
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The title "Under the Feet of Jesus" suggests that religion will play an
important role in the lives of these characters, but it doesn't. Why?
1. Estrella understands that working in the fields is a lot harder than she expected. She doesn't quite understand that she's an illegal immigrant and can't be always where she wants too. She realizes this when she begins to be chased by the patrol men and her mother begins to scold her. In the first chapter she was full of life and ready to begin the new life with work and new home. She was so full of life with no tiredness in sight and always wanting to always have fun. Now she understands the feeling of being tired and drained of life.
ReplyDelete2. The world of Estrella hasn't really changed compared to today's livings. Many people are still considered illegal and work for others just to live in America. People try to do anything just to make themselves have a better life.
Yolanda Maldonado
ReplyDelete1. Estrella tends to be very independent with herself. She seems to understand all that is around her by thinking it through and not letting anyone tell her otherwise; she is very good at defending herself and her thoughts. From chapter one to chapter two she undergoes a transition of dreaming and reality. She becomes a lot more mature and knows the reality of all that is happening in her life and why.
2. Estrella's world is quite similar to many people today. Many people still are considered "illegal" even after working or having a home here in the United States. They still have to worry about the fact that they might be taken back to their country even after all the hard work that they had accomplished.
1. When Estrella and her family move into the house in the middle of the country in chapter 1, the focus of the story is on Estrella's family and how Estrella feels about the whole move. But in chapter 2, it's focus is more on how much she is beginning to struggle in her new settlement. The hot summer, the hunger, and her daunting experience with the baseball field sets her into reality.
ReplyDelete2. What Estrella is experiencing is nothing that I see is new in a story of an immigrant. She comes to the country expecting not too much and in return getting a lot more (in a negative way) than she ever wished. It's something that I can see some people relating to today since many families immigrate to America searching for a better future.
1. In chapter one Estrella did not show any wordiness at all and was as happy as a normal young girl. But throughout chapter two she starts to view the world differently. She meets Alejo and starts falling in love with him and also starts realizing many other things. For example she starts realizing how hard it is to work in the field and how hard it is to be an immigrant.
ReplyDelete2. Estrella and her family don't want anything but a better and comfortable life just like many other immigrants. Many families have the dream of coming to the Americas in look for a better life and some come to the Americas to help their families without measuring all the risks that could be included
1. Estrella is ecstatic about her new life in chapter 1 and has high hopes for her future. As the story progresses in chapter to she starts to learn the hardships of what it really is like to be an immigrant, when it comes to working in the fields. She learns what it's like to be exhausted and that life isn't what she expected.
ReplyDelete2.The life of today's Immigrants is very much similar to the one of Estrella's. They all seem to expect to have high hopes for their new home and end up finding out the real struggles and hard work it really is.
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Delete1.) estrella begins to face the harsh reality of the life of an immigrant. she begins to realize how life was way harder than she thought to the extent that she almost starts crying bout it. earlier in the book, estrella is eager to work and begin a new life but later in chapter 2, she is close to tears due to the unexpected realization of the life of an immigrant.
ReplyDelete2.i am not surprised by estrella's living status/environment because i have seen it happen in a lot of places. it still happens in a lot of places and it's not getting better. most times, the harsh treatment of immigrants are often unseen because it is usually covered up. a great example would be estrella experience with the lady that was the cover for the raisins. the cover of the raisins made everything seem so easy but people wouldn't consider the hard labor done by the workers to produce the raisins. they just focused on the lady and the raisins
1. When I saw the world around estrella and how she saw it through her eyes I felt angry but also glad,angry about how the people around her were so cruel to her and her family, but glad and astonished about how their surviving, how they took on the world punishments and are still thriving
ReplyDelete2.it's not really different from today, many kids and people alike work hard everyday just for the things they need and can barely get the things they want for themselves or their family
1. When I saw the world around estrella and how she saw it through her eyes I felt angry but also glad,angry about how the people around her were so cruel to her and her family, but glad and astonished about how their surviving, how they took on the world punishments and are still thriving
ReplyDelete2.it's not really different from today, many kids and people alike work hard everyday just for the things they need and can barely get the things they want for themselves or their family
1.) In chapter 1, Estrella is excited for her new life, however by chapter 2, Estrella comes to the very true reality of immigrant life, and the challenges that come with that reality.
ReplyDelete2.) While Estrella's environment is bleak, I am not surprised, due to the fact that the family is illegally in Texas, and if they became legal citizens, they would not have all the challenges they have currently, because they could get less rigorous jobs, and the children would not have to work for the family's survival.
Interestingly, citizenship isn't a possibility without access to representation in Mexico or a new immigration policy in this country, and in today's new economy we have highly trained workers (legal)earning minimum wage.
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ReplyDelete1)In chapter 1, Estrella was in closed doors. She didn't really share her feelings or emotions. In chapter 2, once she met Alejo she started opening up to him. She started developing into an independent woman. She also begins to experience the immigrant way of life. Working the fields, she finally see's reality and no longer has her head in the clouds.
ReplyDelete2)Estrella and her family have a tough life. Though today no one may know, there could be people who struggle today. Today's way of struggle is through poverty, people try everything to live.
-Brionca Mundo
In chapter 2, Estrella is compared to the happy women on the boxes of the raisins. She has finally realizes the reality as her life of an immigrant compared to chapter 1. As she starts talking to Alejo, she starts seeing humans differently. She begins to learn that life isn't as expected and begins to have aching muscles.
ReplyDelete2. Her experience relates to many people. Today, people still work on harsh conditions and hasn't changed. People migrate to other countries to have a better life but find they work harder than before. They don't mind it because they try to do everything that is possible.
-Alejandra Argueta
1)In chapter 1, Estrella was happy about what was coming for her . Now in chapter 2, she come into reality of the immigrant life and how much challenges she is going to experience.
ReplyDelete2) Estrella life is just like how it is today . Many people move to different places for a different and new life and when they get there the find out how hard and difficult is it .
1. In chapter 2 Estrella gets used to the life she has to live because before she didn't want to accept it
ReplyDelete2. It is somewhat similar because many people are considered illegal but the fact that they are isn't widely known.
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ReplyDelete1. Estrella and her family have to deal with being on alert at all times due to the border patrol. She starts to see how hard being an immigrant is and contemplates her life.
ReplyDelete2. Estrella is going through what a lot of immigrants are going through today. Her life was expected because she did come in illegally.
1. Estrella understands that working in the fields is harder than she thought it would be. She doesn't really know that she's an illegal immigrant and can't be wherever she wants whenever she wants. In the first chapter she was full of life and always wanted to have fun and now, in chapter 2, she understands the feeling of being tired of life and knowing the reality.
ReplyDelete2. Her experience relates to many people. Today, people still work on harsh conditions. People migrate to other countries to have a better life but have trouble adapting.
-Jennifer C.
1. Estrella from chapter 1 to chapter 2 experiences the difference between expectation and reality. From chapter 1, she felt good and ready to start a new life in the bungalow and in the fields. She wasn't really open with her emotions in chapter 1. Now in chapter 2, Estrella faces the hardships of immigrant workers working in fields and in the hot sun. Once she met alejo, she opens up just a little. In this chapter, she experiences something everyday immigrants face, which is getting chased by the patrol. Now as she is getting older, she knows how really life is and has the feeling of exhaustion.
ReplyDelete2. The world that Estrella lives in is not that different form the one we live in today. Many people today work in the fields so they can support their family. Like in the book, immigrant people today worry about getting taken by the patrol back to Mexico or where ever they came from.
1) By the second chapter, Estrella has changed drastically due to the harsh conditions that she is placed in. She was once full of life and hope, the hard forced labor has taken a giant toll on her well being. It brought her down trying to cope with the fact that she is illegal and unlike the other people that are above her and are allowed to walk freely.
ReplyDelete2) The world that we live in today is exactly the same. It doesn't matter that there is no more hard labor being done, but the fact that seeing someone as an "illegal alien" is sick and disgusting. People immigrate to this god-forsaken America to find a better way of life, but when they do they are shot down by immigration patrol and racists. Just how Estrella's world was back then.
1.)Within the first two chapters of the book, Estrella encounters harsh living conditions as a teenage migrant worker in California. In the first chapter she seemed acceptable about her and her family's work. Despite the fact that she nearly starved and her father left her but in the first chapter she doesn't seem like it bothered her. But within the second chapter, her emotions come out as she admits she's nothing like the smiling woman on the raisin box. In addition, she's more upset now due to her fear of the border control.
ReplyDelete2.) I know many of the topics in the book occur today. This book allowed me to view these issues from her perspective and experience them with her almost. I know things like immigration and poverty existed both then and now but I never knew the severity of it. For example, in Chapter 1 they had to steal fruit just to help support her family. In today's life, there are people who unfortunately have to steal food to feed their starving families.
Brandon Langley
ReplyDelete1) In chapter one Estella is looking forward even excited for her new life,but in chapter 2 the cold harsh reality hits her that it is going to be serious work and not fun and games expressed mostly in her statement about not being like the "women wearing a fluffy bonnet,holding out the grapes with her smiling"
she never had the time to smile she was working to hard
2 It is a typical reaction I don't expect her life to be one with a great amount of happiness most illegal citizens have a difficult time in the United states it is relevant to today in the sense that this story or her life would be very similar to most of the illegal citizens today.
1 Estrella has already had to undergo harsh conditions but it really didnt hit the fan until she sees she is really treated like dirt and is dirt in the second chapter
ReplyDelete2 Estrellas world is must like how it here in texas all though they may be so called illegal they still work live sleep and eat like your average everyday American.
Chapter 5
ReplyDelete1.Estrella sees herself as a savior to everyone on the work field , she is no longer rely on religion to help her in her journey. She finally realize that religion will not help , she must take actions. Not wait for something that may never happen.
2. Religion does play a big role to the family because it does not help them in nothing . It did not bring nothing good to them, in addition Estrella stopped thinking God was going to help her , she found her own way around situation , she learned responsibility.
Chapter 5
ReplyDelete1. Estrella see's herself as someone that the people on the field can go to and rely on. She realizes that everything she used to believe in isn't going to help her and that she has to make the decisions according to what she feels in her heart.
2.In the beginning religion used to be the family's go to but Estrella eventually stopped depending on it.Whenever something was going wrong they would turn to it, but as time passes they see that it hasn't really helped them in anything and it hasn't brought anyhting good to them.
1.Estrella seems to think of herself as a idol to everyone else on the fields , she is also free from the boundaries of religion and starts doing things on her own instead of leaving it to god .
ReplyDelete2. They may have thought that good played a important role in their lifes but they soon realize he does not and start doing things there way