Case Study: Migration And Acculturation

While Carmen helping poor people Esperanza confused because she didn’t think of poor can help each other. She was confused because the way she raised were different compared to other people. Finally, Esperanza realized that there are more profound aspects in life than being

It is a warm day in Tegucigalpa, the sun peeking through the cracks of the beat down building Lourdes calls home. But today begins a new chapter of her life, a life in the United States. It is January 29, 1989. Lourdes is a divorced single mother of two. She works hard to provide an income for her family, but it is not enough to purchase education and food for her kids. Like countless other women in the same situation, she decides that she will go to America and make money to send home to her children. Although she plans to leave for only a year, she will not return.

In the book “Enrique's Journey” Enrique is left behind by his mother, so that she can go to the States to earn money to support her family, this lead to the bases of the story being that Enrique being without his parents is left alone, and being in his fallen state he is drowning himself in his own depression in his fallen state, consequently leading him to vow to travel north to the states in order to reunite with his mother, and at a young age he set out across Mexico on the trains

Many immigrants are forced to leave their homes because of violence. Estevan and Esperanza are talking to Taylor when they come across the topic of their child, Ismene. “She was taken in a raid in their neighborhood in which Esperanza’s brother

Many Hondurans fantasize of a lavish life in American. The sad truth is, is that is only a fantasy. Very few will make it rich in America, and that was true for Lourdes and Enrique. In America, Lourdes works a series of menial jobs that are continually disappearing. She lives in a small trailer and can never seem to raise enough money to have her children smuggled over the border.

This affected Enrique mentally and physically in a lot of ways. As the book illustrates, “...Enrique cries, over and over. ‘Where is my mom?’”(Nazario 5). This shows how a little five year old named Enrique gets left behind by his mother. Just being five years old, he struggles without a mother.

His mother left just like any other parent would leave in order to be able to provide a better future for their children, back in Honduras there is so much poverty that she would sell anything that she could in order to provide for her children but it is not enough. She decides to leave, it is the hardest decision she had to make, Enrique and Belky, his younger sister, will grow up without there mother.

The first challenge Esperanza faced as an immigrant was doing house chores. On page 117 it says, “ I told Mama I could help. But I cannot even wash clothes or sweep a floor” So Esperanza told Mama she would do house chores, but she can’t even sweep. She used to never work because she had servants to clean for her.

The first challenge Esperanza faced as an immigrant was she had to do house work. Mama was working in the fields, so Esperanza had to do the daily house chores and watch the babies.

time period were faced with. For example, Ernesto’s mother does not have his father to assist in raising

Enrique’s Journey chronicles the life of a young Central American boy, and his quest to reunite with a mother who left him at the age of five to find work in the United States. Enrique 's mother, Lourdes, struggles in Honduras to support her young children, Belky and Enrique. She knows she will not be able to send her son and daughter to school past the third grade, and does not want them to grow up as she did, in extreme poverty. Lourdes leaves her home and family to travel to the United States so that she might send money home for her children. Young Enrique has no idea why his mother has left, and his family in Honduras does not give him straight answers. Over the years, Enrique is shuffled from one family home to another, while his sister Belky attends a good school and is well cared for by their aunt. Enrique is forced to sell food and spices when he

Then, once Enrique and Belky were old enough to care for themselves in the slightest, their father also abandoned them, leaving them with not one significant parental figure in their lives, and in fact, alone to fend for themselves. This common thread of abandonment carries on throughout the entire novel, with many cases of abandonment and trying to fulfill that abandonment. Through Enrique’s decision to fulfill abandonment with his mother, and his risk of repeating that same cycle

The progression of an individual from lower class to upper class is a bit of a rare sight in countries like South America, it takes a great deal of hard work and luck in order to be able to move up just one class. Esteban Trueba had been engaged to a woman of the de Valle family and began to build his fortune by working in a mine, eventually he returned to his first home in Tres Marias. This community that was once very lively and prosperous, was now a prime example of what poverty looks like, where the people lacked sustenance and plumbing, and the women were with filth and disease but without any men. Esteban had intended to be the savior of Tres Marias and succeeded in returning the community back to its prime and improved their standard of living. Esteban says, “Without me they’d be lost…my people have it fine now, what more do they need? It would be lovely if we were all created equal, but the fact is we’re not” (Allende 72-73). He believes that he is the savior of the

With a booming population that only continued to grow, as more and more people flocked to the city for jobs, housing was cramped. With more people than the area could support, combined with the inadequate sanitary conditions of the slums, where they had “neither gutters no drains” and “refuse [accumulated] in stagnant, stinking puddles.”(5) people would be forced to live surrounded by disease. Diseases that would spread fast, and killed many. These people had no choice but to live surrounded by shit, and were given no choices about their future along with no chance at progressing away from poverty. Their lives went down hill and not only did progress but

Living in public housing wasn't the best thing in the world. The projects in New York would have poor living conditions like the elevators smelled like weed and people would have gotten stuck in the elevator. You have to push the emergency 911 button and the firefighters will come. The stairs are really dirty and filled with pee, it also smelled like weed. One time I actually saw poop on the stairs from a human. The delivery people would get robbed all the time and at times stabbed or killed. You would hear police sirens every single day and most of the time they were in the building. My dad had gotten robbed before and my brother got shot. Gang members all hanged out downstairs in front of the building, they sold drugs too. Everyone had food stamps to help them with their lifestyle, you can use it in the supermarket or corner store.