3. Significance of the title: Esperanza’s father owns a vineyard, which is a farm where grapes are grown. In this chapter, the author states, “When the grapes delivered their harvest, she always turned another year,” which means that the harvesting of grapes marks the passage of time in Esperanza’s life. Why do you think that “Las uvas” or “grapes” is the title for this chapter?

story is "Esperanza Rising" and this is chapter 2(pages 4-22) !

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the significance of the title, "the passing", is related to the fact that the main characters, who are three african-american descendant women, are passing as white. this means that, because of their light-coloured skins they look like white women. one of the three friends, clare, is married to a white man and she lives in a white community and she has never told her husband that she is black. the title can easily be connected to the idea of pretending to be someone you are not and of losing your real identity in order to be accepted by society.