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Esperanza Rising Characters

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Aminata

Idenity

“Chekura was dead. Mamadu was dead. May had been gone for five years… I missed all three of my loved ones so terribly that my body, it seemed, was half missing.” (p. 370)

Minorities less than human

Name changed to Meena

"a nation that said all men were created equal, but kept my people in chain" (311)

Struggle

"I lived in terror that the captors would beat us, boil us, and eat us, but they began with humiliation: they tore the clothes off our backs" ( 29).

Slavery

“Too late. He’s sold. Only got me five pounds” (184)

Sold into slavery at age of eleven

Literary theory

Colonialism

Family

Aminata's parents

Manadua, and May (Aminata's Kids)

Racism

“You talk real fancy for a nigger,” (252)

"'we don't serve niggers" (313)

Symbols

Boat

Entrapment

“locked inside this pen” ( 93)

Africa

Freedom

Books

Knowdlege

Dedicated

"It was hard work, but i showed him that I learned fast and would do the job well. I had no wish to anger him"

Intelligent

"I have never seen someone from Africa learn so fast."

Other Characters

Chekura

Compassionate

"that evening Chekura brought a calabash of water and some soap made from shea nuts, and offered to help clean the wound on my thigh". (Hill 38) "

Appleby

Evil

Setting

1745-1805

Nova Scotia

“The pain of my losses never really went away. The limbs had been severed, and they would forever after be missing. But I kept going. Somehow, I just kept going" (351)”

South Carolina

British Colony

Slave Ship

Bayo Africa

“It’s not about whether it will do me good. It’s that I want to go home.” (418)