Examples Of Sacrifice In Enrique's Journey

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

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.

Family can affect one’s actions and decisions. In Sonia Nazario’s Enrique’s Journey, Enrique is a five-year-old boy who lives in an impoverished town in the capital Honduras. Enrique’s mom, Lourdes, leaves her family in Honduras and illegally makes her way into the United States to provide money for her children. Enrique faces many hardships living in Honduras without his mom, and he deeply misses her. At seventeen, Enrique decides to go on a treacherous journey to the United States to reconcile with his mother.

The world can be cruel, but it is our job to know how to navigate through it. A seventeen-year-old boy named Enrique from the story Enrique’s Journey by Sonia Nazario has to find his way back to his mother after she departed for the U.S. Enrique encounters many hardships and obstacles on his voyage, but that never breaks him. From Enrique’s enduring and dangerous journey, he learns that through determination and perseverance, one can get anywhere in life. For example, after Enrique’s sixth attempt failed to go to America, "...

He did a lot on his own. Growing up into a teenager he went through many obstacles. Enrique was always switching houses because he was unwanted. His grandmother kicked him out of the house because he started to get home very late every night, and it started to become a bad habit. After living with his grandmother, he then moved with his father. As a baby, Enrique’s father left and never did he think he would ever live with him again. The house his father had was gigantic. Never did Enrique live in such a beautiful home. He stared to get very comfortable staying there. For the first time in a while Enrique finally felt wanted. His father started to go out with his girlfriend almost every night. All the attention was being put to her. Enrique’s father started taking her on movie and dinner dates. Enrique asked if he could tag along, however his father did not allow him. The book says, “Enrique’s father baths, dresses, splashes on cologne, and follows his girlfriend. He plans to move in with her and leave Enrique with Grandmother Maria. Enrique tags along as Luis leaves. He begs his father to let him come along. But Luis refuses . He tells Enrique to go back home” (Nazario 25). Luis has a baby with his girlfriend; Enrique is going to become a fantastic uncle to her. His father and his girlfriend kicked him out of the house unexpectedly. They felt the baby needed all attention possible and all the space. He tells enrique to go back home.

Gabriel and Maria’s clashing aspirations create inner conflict in Antonio. Gabriel is firmly opposed to Maria’s dream for Antonio. Maria adamantly wants Antonio to become a Luna priest who rules over a farmer community, and makes it abundantly clear what her expectations of Antonio are. However,

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

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.

I can only imagine what immigrating to america is like for these families, everyday children my age and younger are risking their lives to come to America and It really makes me appreciate how much I have. For Lourdes, Enrique, and Maria Isabel in Enrique’s Journey they must make the hard decision of leaving everything they grew up with in Honduras to come to america for a better life. Lourdes, Enrique’s mother, could no longer afford to feed and send her children to school and was struggling to make money with her job. “Lordes can think of only one place that offers hope… Lourdes has decided: She will leave. She will go to the United States, and make money and send it home.” (p.20) Lourdes decides to make the trip because it

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.

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.

The relationship between Mariam and Laila grows overtime into an unbreakable love. Mariam is a vulnerable character that experienced hardships and negativity throughout her life. Her reliance on faith and religion gave her hope. Laila however, has had a positive upbringing from modern parents. Her education is what made her a strong and intelligent girl. Their personalities contrast to bring the best out of each other. However at first, in fear of being overshadowed by Laila, Mariam says “If [Laila] thinks [she] can use [her] looks to get rid of me, [she is] wrong. [Mariam] was here first. [She] won't be thrown out” (225). As Mariam has never been a priority to anyone in her life she was very defensive over her role in the house. As jealousy embarked upon Mariam,

The relationship between mother and daughter is very evident in this novel. It is implied by the priest that Maria has duties in the household and duties as a woman. François Paradis also knew that Maria would make a good housewife, one that would give wholly, love of the body and the soul that she would be a devoted spirit that would not waver.[6] These similarities are apparent when the daughter’s first love is represented by a symbolic abduction, (winter storm) that is followed by a return to her mother’s way of life. She generously accepts Gagnon as her husband, thus guaranteeing the continued existence of family,

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

"She sits at become afraid to go outside". The leave home, she would need permission. She evolves from a victim of child abuse to a slave-like wife. Esperanza sees this despair throughout her story.