Enrique's 'His Mother Is A Stranger'

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.

Living in Mexico throughout her teen years was very rough. Unlike other teenagers where their parents constantly provide for their children, Marisela’s life was a lot different than the usual parent- child relationship. She lived with her Abuela ( Grandma) Lupe, along with her 3 brothers and sister. She constantly had to take care of her brothers and sister at such a young age, that she became the mother-like figure of the

According to Jie Zong, Jeanne Batalova, and Jeffrey Hallock, the U.S. has been “the top destination for international migrants since the least 1960, with one fifth of the world’s migrants living there as of 2017.” It is well known to numerous people that hundreds of immigrants travel from all over the world to the United States, but what exactly does it take for many of them to get here? One such author, Sonia Nazario, manages to capture the gruesome journey of one immigrant boy, who like many others, is attempting to make it to the United States. The author reveals the brutal realities and the main reason countless of young children make their way to America. In her novel, Enrique’s Journey, Sonia Nazario utilizes pathos, reputable sources,

Their mothers promised the children that they would return at once, and for some like Enrique, eleven years passed by without ever seeing his mother once. Seventy-five percent of abandoned children look for their mothers who embark on this dangerous journey to the United States involving bandits, drug cartels, and corrupt cops. Enrique’s mother, Lourdes, leaves January 29, 1989 promising Enrique and his sister Belky that she will be back soon. She starts off on her journey and reaches the United States. For years she works and sends money back to Honduras for her children (Nazario

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

She is still planning on coming home in the next few years, little does she know that she will never return to her hometown in Honduras. She calls every year, she talks to Enrique, hearing the changes in his voice as he ages. She receives begs from her mother and he children asking her to please come home, the calls never last long.

What would it be like to be left alone when people are needed the most? Enrique’s Journey is a biography about a young boy who is left by his mother at a young age as she tries to provide a better life for her family in the U.S. One example of this is when Lourdes leaves Enrique at such a young age to provide a better life for him in another country where she can do better financially. Another example is when Enrique decides to leave Honduras even though he knows that Maria Isabel, his girlfriend, might be pregnant. A third important event is when Maria Isabel leaves Jasmine to be with Enrique so they can unite their family at a later time. In the biography Enrique's Journey, Sonia Nazario shows that sometimes in order to pursue one’s goals, major sacrifices must be made.

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

“Day and night Maria Isabel turns it over in her mind. Would going to the united states really allow Jasmin to have both her parents at her side more quickly.” (p.192) Maria Isabel did not want to leave Jasmin, she had grown so close to her daughter and couldn't bare the thought of being away from her for so long. Ultimately it seems like she leaves only at last result, because she doesn't believe life for her in Honduras will get better and the only way to help her daughter in the long run is leaving now and doing whatever she can to return home as soon as possible. “Maria Isabel decides: In the long run, leaving will help Jasmin. Eventually, she will be with her real mother and father, everyone together.” (p.192) Maria’s decision was very hard to make but ultimately i respect her and would have done the same if i had no other options to help my family. Maria was very afraid of the journey she was worried about the dangers but knew in america she would see Enrique again. The pros of this was together both of them could have well paying jobs would benefit Jasmin and reunite them with her sooner than if she kept working on low pay jobs on the streets of Honduras. For each of them it always seems like the best option to leave even though this affects their whole family and children, they sacrifice so much and risk their own lives to make their future better. I think they

The novel, ‘Enrique’s Journey’ follows the difficult quest of a Honduras boy in search for his mother after she is forced to leave her starving family in order to find work in the United States. Lourdes, Enrique’s mother, knows she will not be able to afford to send them to school, and they would be forced to grow up in poverty as she did when she was a child. Finding work in the United States was Lourdes only way of being able to send money in order to support her family. As a boy, Enrique and his sister Belky are were also split apart from one another, leaving Enrique completely alone. Over the years, Enrique often shuffled from one home to another, eventually spending most of his young life with is grandmother, while his sister sets out to get her education and is well cared for by their aunt. After the depression sinks in for Enrique, he turns to drugs for comfort and begins to rebel against his grandmother. She eventually kicks him out and he is faced with the sobering reality of being completely alone. Frustrated with his mother, and the circumstances he faces in life, Enrique embarks on a

The journey from Honduras to America in not only long but physically and mentally torturous. Enrique sets off for America eight times with seven of those time ending in him being deported to Guatemala every time Enrique still has the will to still keep trying. At the beginning of his seventh journey Enrique is mercilessly beaten and robbed by six by six men while riding of the top of a freight train he escapes by jumping off the train. Enrique is lucky to survive the train intact many fair worse than him with instances of limbs being cut off by the wheels of the train or even more violent attacks by gang members targeting the migrants on the trains. For children such as Enrique who are traveling to the north the trains and gangs are not the only obstacles they must the police also represent a threat, many of which will do things like kidnap migrants and hold them for ransom. The journey from Honduras to America seems excessively grueling and almost impossible for someone Enrique’s yet every year thousands of children do. Up through Mexico the people have many different options on the Central American migrants traveling through their country some believe they are nothing but pest while other are more than happy to help, one more thing to add to the complexity of the

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.

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.

Enrique’s Journey recounts the story of a young Honduras boy’s life and his journey to join his mother after she left Central America to find work that would ultimately benefit her family. The book describes his struggles and successes within himself and with others during his crossing of the United States border.

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.