Comparing The Red Umbrella And A Band-Aid For 800 Children

Immigration affects families in many different ways. In the book “Enrique’s Journey” by Sonia Nazario, family is a core element. After Enrique’s mother leaves for the U.S., the whole concept of their family gets distorted. The walking out of Enrique’s father and the abandonment of his grandmother help to disband the family even more. Enrique also threatens to repeat the same mistakes his family made with his daughter when he considers leaving her behind in Honduras. Family is the central theme in Enrique’s Journey because of his relationship and resentment with his mother, the rejection of his father and grandmother, and Enrique’s decision to leave his daughter, Jasmin, behind.

In addition, the author helps the reader understand the selfishness of the mother when the reader finds out she have stole the Persian Carpet “several months before” (230) the divorce and puts the blame on Ilya, the poor blind man. Furthermore, the visit of the children is supposed to signal a fresh start for the family. The mother even emphasizes she wants the girls to come “live with [them]” (229). Yet again, even if they meet in order to reunite, characterized by a situational irony, they see themselves separated because of her mother selfish decisions.

In the passages Confetti Girl by Diana López and Tortilla Sun by Jennifer Cervantes, the narrators and the parents have different opinion on what is the right thing to do, and because of their different opinions, tension and distance in their relationship is created. The narrators in both passages feel alone or left out either because of the lack of attention of because they are missing a beloved parent. In both passages the narrators feel uncomfortable with the parent and is not fully opening up to them. In the sections Confetti Girl and Tortilla Sun, the different opinions between the two narrators and parents create distance and tension in their relationship.

Enrique’s journey from Honduras to the U.S. unveils the innate loyalty of a loving child to their mother and presents the dangers that a migrant faces on the road with consistent angst; nevertheless, it supports the idea that compassion shown by some strangers can boost the retreating confidence within a person. In Sonia Nazario’s “Enrique’s Journey,” he seeks the beacon of light that all migrants hope to encounter; “El Norte.” Like many children before him, it is the answer to the problems of a hard life. While being hunted down “like animals” leading to “seven futile attempts,” he is

In the memoir, “The Distance Between Us,” by Reyna Grande, Natalio makes a decision which cost him to lose everything he once had. Natalio leaves Juana and his three kids to make money in El Otro Lado to build his dream house in Mexico. Since he couldn’t make enough money on his own, he takes the mother of his three kids as well. This decision creates a distance between all of them, because no matter how close by they are in Los Angeles after they migrated to the United States the harmony amongst his family is never established. Mago, Carlos, and Reyna get humiliated as they are left with their wicked grandmother Evila. They are looked down on as orphans. Their economic status in Mexico makes them want to give up on school. As the father dreams

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.

As children grow up in a dysfunctional family, they experience trauma and pain from their parent’s actions, words, and attitudes. With this trauma experienced, they grew up changed; different from other children. The parent’s behavior affects them and whether they like it or not, sometimes it can influence them, and they can react against it or can repeat it. In Junot Díaz’s “Fiesta, 1980”, is presented this theme of the dysfunctional family. The author presents a story of an adolescent Latin boy called Junior, who narrates the chronicles of his dysfunctional family, a family of immigrants from the Dominican Republic driving to a party in the Bronx, New York City. “Papi had been with

“Instructions not Included”, and “Under the same moon” are two dramas that diffier on their tone, music; “Under the Same moon” is a tragic drama, while Instructions Not Included is a comedy. Besides their differences, both movies have strong similarities. In fact, both movies suggest that feminism is a reason for women to abandon a young child. Both movies focus in Hispanic single-parents that migrate to a different country, both relates that family separation impacts the children’s behavior and personality, and both movies suggest that self-improvement is not worth it, if it implies mothers to be separated from children. These facts have been proven by facts and research. This research has proved that children should not pay the price of women’s

Enrique’s Journey focuses and sheds more light and understanding on the aspects and challenges of extreme poverty, family abandonment, systematic issues of an immigration system and what one has to go through in the face of adversity. The book centers on Enrique who starts out as a young boy living in extreme poverty in Honduras with his family. Enrique is an older adolescent, Hispanic, poverty economic status, unemployed most times, and is in a relationship with one child. This case study will further look at Enrique’s personal experiences from a young child up to young adulthood and how that has shaped his development has a person from coming from such difficult environmental circumstances. This will also look at the different environmental perspectives in the micro, mezzo and macro level when pertaining to effects on human behavior.

“The Red Umbrella” and the “Migration photo” both share a tone of hurt and sadness. In the picture you could see they all have serious faces and seem to keep a lookout ahead. There is a lot you can infer from this picture. From the men’s expressions they look hurt inside and worried. In “The Red Umbrella” The father must confront his kids he has to ship them away to protect them. While the father tells his kids the mother can only look down while her kids are crying. She is really sad

By reading the article and seeing Sandigo’s kind actions to children of deported parents, the reader learns that Sandigo feels that family separation is In The Red Umbrella, the main character,

In the photograph the author shows that there are no woman in the picture or children so that shows that the men are separated from their family. In the Red Umbrella it shows Family Separation because the kids get separated from her parents because the parents want the best for

The Red Umbrella, by Christina Diaz Gonzalez and “A Band Aid for 800 Children,” by Eli Saslow both portray the subject of family separation. The two texts portray the same subject in similar and different ways to express their feelings about the topic. There are many similar techniques the two texts use to portray the topic of family separation. One technique that both texts use is that both texts use a serious tone when describing the situation. One example of a serious tone in Red Umbrella is when Papa says “Mi hija, sit down” “Please.”

Immigration is seems like it has been a hot subject recently, and it’s always been like that. Being such a controversial and relevant topic, many articles and stories alike talk about immigration. Since there are many different views on the topic of immigration, there are many different text that talk about it, that still do have their similarities. In the story, The Red Umbrella, the subject of immigration is mentioned quite a lot, just as much as it is in the article “A ‘Band-Aid’ for 800 Kids’”, in different and similar ways.

For thousands of years, waves of immigrants continue joining the developed countries in the world, bringing with them the unique cultures, languages, and ideas. Over time, those unique values might be faded away with each generation because of the new culture exposition. The second-generation immigrants experience a cultural conflict between that of their parents and that of host society. Most of them are unable to preserve and empower their origin cultures. Many differences between the first-generation and the second-generation immigrants arise. Through the analysis of the mother in “Death of a Young Son by Drowning” and the Das family in “Interpreter of Maladies”, I would like to demonstrate the differences between the first-generation immigrants, who travel from other countries, and the second-generation immigrants, who were born and raised on the immigrated land. These differences include the purpose of being in the foreign land, the connections to their homelands, society’s view, and the culture differences.