Enrique's This Quotes

Esperanza and her mother made the choice to leave Mexico and go to California to work and escape Tio Luis, which I believe to be a good decision. Before going, Esperanza was spoiled, rich, and quite full of herself, living in a high social class family, and in general thought of herself better than others. At first, she was against leaving everything she knew and loved, but in the end, found herself liking California. Esperanza made new friends, in particular, Isabel, who taught her many things, even though she was younger. She taught her how to appreciate what she had, and how to get a job done. She taught her how to deal with the fact that

Lourdes asks how she could ever live in a “lawless” place like Honduras. The author includes this quote so that readers can understand that this idea to Lourdes sounds ridiculous because the place is too dangerous. In the second quote, immigrants who have had limbs cut off by the train are the ones asking these rhetorical questions. Readers notice how they are more worried about working and getting married than their actual well being and the limbs that they do not have anymore. This allows for readers of the novel to understand just how worried and stressed immigrants are about getting out of

Enrique had to get on he tops of freight trains to begin his journey which meant risking his lift due to the hazards from fast paced the freight train and possible bandits along the way. Many people on the freight trains encounter bandits or thugs that nearly kill them. “They slam him [Enrique] facedown. All six surround him.

2. Selena and her brother don 't seem to be as bothered by the difficulties the father describes.  Why do they not share his feelings?

Finalizing her poem with the last two stanzas, Espaillat describes her opinion about her father in a hopeful tone. “I like to think he knew that, even when, / proud (orgulloso) of his daughter’s pen, // her stood outside mis versos, half in fear / of words he loved but wants not to hear” (lis 15-18). She wishes for her father to accept

In conclusion, we know that Esperanza’s negativity of herself begins to slowly change as she slowly experience what accepting means and how she began to accept where she was from . Throughout this book, Cisnero showed us accepting is an important part of growing in life as well as determining the true you. In the beginning she hated her life always wanted to escape out of Mango Street versus the end she says she is going to come back. From the beginning to the end, Esperanza finally accepted where she was from and how Mango Street has developed who she became

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

This relates to the human rights issue of immigrants due to enrique’s mom heading for the states to better her life. She was a maid , so therefore she didn’t really make that much money. She hoped for a better life and she thought she would be able to do this by moving to the states. In her eyes the only way to do this was heading for america.

Enrique created a larger than life image of his mother, and when he was reunited with her, his depression soon began to return. Quickly after, Enrique finds himself in the midst of a multiculturalism society like the United States. In the states, he learns what potential he has there, and how much better it would be if he could eventually have his girlfriend Maria Isabel and their daughter, Jasmin smuggled in from Honduras. Like his mother, Enrique begins to take the money he earns from his job in the United States, and saves enough money to have his family smuggled in the United States, so that they too can get the experience of what it is like to live in a multiculturalist society, and enjoy the freedoms and joy every migrant family should be able to

Lourdes leaves Enrique when he is just a baby so she can find better opportunities in the United States and provide a better life for him. Nazario says, “Lourdes has decided: She will go to the United States and make money and send it home. She will be gone for one year” (4). This shows Lourdes’ ignorance and her positive outlook about her choice. Lourdes thinks that leaving Enrique behind is a necessary sacrifice in order to create a better life for her son, but soon finds out that leaving Enrique as a young boy proves to be a fatal mistake.

The poor neighborhoods of Honduras can be just as corrupt as their government. Many neighborhoods in Honduras, including the neighborhood that Lourdes and Enrique grew

Poor Lourdes feels unwanted from the beginning of her life with her mother swearing to forget her; therefore, throughout her life Lourdes feels a lingering resentment, even though the acts by Celia were purely through emotional displacement brought about by the nastiness of her in-laws. “Her mother’s doleful rhythm followed them everywhere” (Garcia 25). The reader can plainly see that Lourdes is both embarrassed and ashamed of what her mother was and is unwillingly to forgive her. Lourdes claimed her mother was dead to garner pity from strangers so they would buy her sweets, and secretly wished it were true at times.

“Please, Miguel, no teasing. I need to help. I need to so I can bring Abuelita to mama” The next day Esperanza started working in the fields. The reason that this connects is because Esperanza wanted to help Abuelita get to mama so she wanted to start working in the fields. Esperanza was reluctant to working at first, but if working means helping a family member, she will do anything. This proves that Esperanza will do whatever it takes because she persisted to convince Miguel until he said yes. Esperanza knew that she would not have been able to help just by praying or thinking about them, she needed to actually take Abuela to mama and see what happened becase it ould not have happened

She sometimes sits out by the creek and remembers her father telling her “I am your father, I will never abandon you.” (Cisneros 1) She remembers this only after she is a mother and this is when she realizes “How when a man and a woman love each other, sometimes that love sours. But a parent’s love for a child, a child’s for its parents, is another thing entirely.” (Cisneros 1) Surely by now she feels her love souring. She can not understand why Juan must drink all time and why he continues to beat after he promises that he will never do it again.

Maria is fifteen years old. Her mother reports that Maria has been performing poorly in school and has withdrawn from her family. This began after her transition to secondary school. Her performance further deteriorated when she began second year. Maria stopped participating in a number of her occupations including hockey, playing the piano, the girl guides, shopping with friends and going to the cinema. She now prefers to stay on the computer of listening to music.