Strawberry Harvesting Time - An Esperanza Rising Fanfic

         Sixto Ortega was excited to wake up to a brand new day. The sun was rising up slowly like a candle slowly emerging from nothingness. Sixto was excited about life and the strawberry harvest that day. It was going to be a wonderful and amazing time for him, his wife, and his daughter, Esperanza. Esperanza was excited, too. She had trouble sleeping that day because it was so exciting harvesting the strawberries on her farm in Aguascalientes, Mexico. Her farm was filled with all kinds of crops like lettuce, tomatoes, bananas, and other fruits and vegetables. She couldn’t wait to harvest the strawberries today. It was going to be a lot of work, but it was going to be so worth it in the end because she will sell them to huge stores for lots and lots of money. Aguascalientes could use some strawberries because the day was ripe for a crop of fruit. She got out of bed and ran to the strawberries and was stunned to see a lot of strawberries ripe and ready to harvest. Picking them was going to take time and effort, but it was so worth the cost in the end. Esperanza was so excited about her life and the fun that harvesting fruits and vegetables entailed. She got so much money and fed her hometown of Aguascalientes well.

Esperanza and her dad, Sixto, slowly gathered the strawberries for ripening. It was an exciting and wonderful time harvesting berries and having a lot of fun doing so. It was so enjoyable harvesting crops because it was so worth the effort and time put into it. Esperanza loved harvesting the strawberries and gathering them in trucks waiting to go all over Aguascalientes to feed the town and make sure that everyone had food to eat. The family earned 1 million pesos in total and were so glad to have been able to sell all the strawberries that day to major suppliers. Esperanza and her parents were happy with the gathered crops and decided to go inside the farm’s main house and have a meal. Everyone ate chorizo and paella, dishes Esperanza loved. They were having a feast that day because of the successful and wonderful harvest. Esperanza was ecstatic about the harvest, and around the dinner table they talked about how wonderful and merry their lives were with the crops that were harvested and the beautiful and wonderful and lovely farm that was so pretty. Life was swell for Esperanza and her parents and the farm workers.

Sixto decided to start paying the farm workers. There were about 100 workers on the farm and each one of them got a watermelon, handful of lettuce, and radishes to eat so that they would have the feast of their lives. Esperanza was so happy being able to feed the workers because they worked so hard tilling the soil and making sure that the farm was going well. Esperanza was a smart girl and knew that the farm was full of delicious crops ready to eat so that she, her family, the workers, and Aguascalientes could have the time of their lives eating radishes, lettuce, strawberries, bananas, oranges, and a host of other crops. Her farm was about 1 square mile and had acres of every crop imaginable. Esperanza was intelligent and astute. She loved going to school and learning about arithmetic, history, chemistry, and biology. Class was so fun to her because she enjoyed learning and having the time of her life. Esperanza was an intelligent girl who loved to learn about all the different events in history, how to calculate huge sums, and how to conduct a lab experiment. Esperanza was an intelligent girl and loved school and having fun with her friends a lot.

Her farm was going well, too. The acres and acres of crops were being carefully planted, watered, and basked in the blazing sun for a life of happiness and joy. Esperanza was a proud, rich, and spoiled girl. Her father would give her anything for her birthday and were so good at giving Esperanza what she wanted. The life Esperanza led on the farm was a life of comfort, happiness, and pleasure. She was so excited about being able to see the radishes being planted, watered, and cooked by the sun’s rays. The crops were extraordinarily well planted and she loved having the time of her life. Esperanza was so excited to be able to wake up each day to a new day at the farm and eat paella, her favorite dish made of rice, shrimp, and other ingredients. Life was going so well for Esperanza because she was able to adapt to new circumstances fairly quickly. Esperanza was a tall girl who loved strolling alongside the crops in the farm to experience a day of happiness and love. Esperanza was ecstatic because life was going well for her and her family and the farm was doing well monetarily as well as physically.

It was time to harvest the last batch of strawberries and Esperanza watched the workers gather them and put them in baskets. It was a mesmerizing thing to see as they would grab a handful of strawberries, pluck them, and have the time of their lives gathering things that they would sell to people all over Aguascalientes. The last batch of strawberries numbered 2,000, and they sold for 1 peso a piece. It was a wonderful, lovely, and exciting thing to see strawberries being sold as well as financially a boon because Esperanza knew her family needed all the money they could get to expand their farm even more. Her dad had plans to make the farm 5 square miles and to do that they needed more money. The farm already had strawberries, lettuce, radishes, pumpkins, tomatoes, and other food. The farm’s crops were wonderful to behold and the life Esperanza got to lead was comfortable and joyful. Esperanza was a diligent girl, and did her schoolwork as well as watch the farm workers work for hours on end. Esperanza was so glad to be a part of the Ortega family, and loved living on the farm with the crops breathing in the air, basking in the sun, as well as being watered. Life was merry.