In "Enrique's Journey" and "Which Way Home" there were children who were leaving their current situations to live what they thought would be a more enjoyable life. Even though they moved away from their homes because they wanted to pursue a better life, they still couldn't find joy and satisfaction at their new destination or on the route to their new destination. This is similar to me because I feel that I am always trying to find more satisfaction and joy in my life. Even though I live a very fortunate life, I still find myself wanting more and more. I think this is because I've become accustom to the life I live. For example, I may live a much better life than the kids that were trying to cross the boarder, but it is all about
Life is like a game of blackjack where we unknowingly are dealt good or bad cards. This unpredictability makes it difficult to gamble decisions. Unfortunately many factors can lead to the bad card where in both the game and life, people are trying to prevent us from achieving the goal. There are two choices to change the outcome however, we may either give up (fold) or we may take a chance (call). The beauty of taking the risk is that if lucky, life gives you that much-needed card. When dealt that winning card, a person is immediately uplifted. That one good hand drives a person to outweigh the pros from the cons and continue to strive for the winning pot or in this case, the goal in life. Enrique in Sonia Nazario’s
Should everyone have the right to immigrate?There were many human rights issue in my novel Enrique’s Journey by Sonia Nazario. The human rights mentioned by Sonia was the right to pursue economic opportunity , to immigrate , to safe travels , and to a free education . These human rights are still affected people within the United States and other country. Due to these human rights issue we need to take action to the most important human right issue is the right to immigration. There are three sources that explain the right to immigration based on Enrique’s Journey and what people do and feel about this. Enrique’s Journey relates to real-life issues of immigration by explaining the challenges people face. They are determined
In the novel Enrique’s Journey, Sonia Nazario demonstrates the onerous journey of illegal immigrants. Sonia Nazario aims for the readers to make them understand what most of the immigrants go through during their journey to the United States. By appealing to ethos and pathos throughout the book, Sonia Nazario portrays the path that Enrique undergoes to reunite with his mother.
Many immigrants want human right like other but they still don’t give respect.In Sonia Nazario’s Enrique's Journey. Enrique face many challenges to get to the United States. Enrique and Lourdes’ challenges illustrate the undocumented people don’t have same human right
In conclusion, “Enrique’s Journey” is a moving story about an incredible love of a son spending for his mom. His dangerous odyssey to reunite with his mom is unforgettable to readers. Through the journey of a little boy, the readers aware of the value of mother’s love which is above anything else to children. Because of basing on a true story, “Enrique’s Journey” somehow reflects a great hardship of the immigrants during their trip cross into the United States. The book is worth a read. I would recommend it to some of my friends who are interested in nonfiction book.
Each year, thousands of Central American immigrants embark on a dangerous journey from Mexico to the United States. Many of these migrants include young children searching for their mothers who abandoned them. In Enrique’s Journey, former Los Angeles Times reporter, Sonia Nazario, recounts the compelling story of Enrique, a young Honduran boy desperate to reunite with his mother. Thanks to her thorough reporting, Nazario gives readers a vivid and detailed account of the hardships faced by these migrant children.
People in Central America especially, long to have their basic necessities met. Visiting Guatemala and Mexico at the age of ten was a hard site to see. Kids walking on the street barefoot not because they wanted to, but they had no money to buy shoes. Making their dirty feet ache at night. Wearing the same clothes full of filth because they could not afford to buy clothes and soap. Parents struggling to provide for their family. They would often sent their child to school without lunch, making it hard for the student to concentrate at school. Any little money counts and they would make it last. Yet they were so welcoming and loving to guest. They had nothing to offer but the little they had they would offer. Family’s full of frustration and no hope turn to the journey of going to “el Norte”. Hoping to have a better life and help their family improve their social status.
Some people have experiences that change them mentally and the way they view life itself Enrique in Sonia Nazario’s Enrique’s Journey is a 3rd person book about a young boy named Enrique from Honduras. Enrique was born into a very poor family that could not afford much and struggled to feed Enrique and everyone else in his family.
In the book Enrique’s Journey the author Sonia Nazario depicts a story of a young boy whose mother leaves him at the age of 4. He is on a quest to find his mother in the USA facing hard obstacles throughout this journey. Sonia Nazario writes about Enrique’s experiences and it serves as an explanation on how people try to accomplish the American Dream. According to Dictionary. com the American dream is “ the ideal that every USA citizen should have an equal opportunity to achieve success and prosperity through hard work, determination, and initiative.” To better comprehend the book there were other sources: This is Life, starring Vincent Chou, the poem Let America Be America Again the documentary Immigration Battle and the narrative Which Way Home. Some topics that will be based off this information are money, poverty and family.
According to President Obama (2014), “If we are serious about economic growth, it is time to heed the call of business leaders, labor leaders, faith leaders, and law enforcement- and fix our broken immigration system. Republicans and Democrats in the Senate have acted. I know that members of both parties in the House want to do the same” (President Obama, 2014). The United States of American has long been the safe haven for those who seek to escape poverty, hunger, torture, and oppression in their home countries. According to the film, The Other Side of Immigration (2009), in 1970, the United States housed 750,000 immigrants and as of 2009, there are
I never expected Enrique’s Journey to be such a personal work. Being a journalistic book, I expected a lot of research in it, but not to the level Nazario’s gone to. Definitely, the way she introduced herself into the enduring situations that migrants go through when they try to reach the US gave me a new perspective of what to expect from the book. She comes from a migrant family too, so she can sort of relate to the characters in the book. However, as she confesses herself, her journey was nowhere as arduous as what these children go through to find their mothers. And the way in which she involved herself into the situation increases her empathy for Enrique en other numberless children.
The “American dream”, a national ethos of the United States, is sought after by many struggling immigrants who go through much risk in order to make a better living in the U.S. A long debated issue over illegal immigration into the U.S revolves around Mexican/Latino immigrants. With Honduras having little to no medical care and harsh living environments, many of its citizens seek to find jobs to support their families. Enrique’s Journey, bye Sonia Nazario sheds a new light on immigration in the U.S with the account of one particular Honduran boy who is trying to immigrate to the U.S. From the view of privileged individuals, these immigrants may be seen as a problem, with a simple solution; do not let them into the U.S. However, this problem has a much more complex lining.
This could make the child or young person frustrated because they are being torn away from either their favourite place or even their friends, when a child or young person moves away they may feel lost or scared lonely or even anxious this could possible end in depression and the child or young persons behaviour in nursery or school.
Enrique’s conditions living in poverty as a young child through older adolescence had many negative effects on his family and his own emotional state. His family’s economic situation is what primarily led to Enrique’s mother leaving home to make money in the U.S. and help her family. Having to grow up and be raised by other family members instead of his own biological parents, played a significant part in his development as his dysfunctional and oppressive environment caused detrimental issues with trust in others and lack of love from his parents. Evans, Gonnella, Marcynyszyn, Gentile
In this day and age, it's easy to find ourselves constantly craving MORE. We think, "Ah, if only I had 'this', I'd be SO happy!". Then shortly after, we think, "I'm happy that I have 'this', but I could be even happier if I had 'that'! It's an endless cycle; we crave something, we finally get it, we're satisfied for a bit, but then before we know it, a new craving takes the place of the old one. So what's wrong with constantly striving for more, you ask? Well, the main issue is that if we're in a mindset where we're constantly craving more, that means we're not fully content with what we have now. And if we can't feel fully content with life as it is, in this very moment, well- then unfortunately odds are we'll never feel fully content. There will ALWAYS be that factor of