Exploratory Dialogue Analysis

I believe that it's safe to say I enjoyed the read and would recommend it to other readers around the school. However, constantly it went against my thinking and made me angry quite often. What made me so angry and upset was how often it skipped over things such as the law and tried to hide and cover the fact that what Enrique and his mother were doing throughout the whole story was illegal. The author constantly tried to hide the fact of the truth and try to make people forget about the bad side of what they were doing, even though they had good intentions, it still is hiding the truth in a sense when as a journalist you should say only the truth and the whole story. Not try to hide things from the reader to essentially manipulate them. Another example of this hiding is when she constantly used the word “migrants” instead of “immigrants” when people had directly left one country into another meaning immigrants not migrants, essentially again I think she did this because the word immigrants looks bad because often times immigrants have tainted the word by their actions. Because of all these things, I think it was way to much of a political agenda to appeal more to illegal immigrants. The story did spark some emotion in me as what happens to Enrique on his journey is truly sad and makes you feel sympathetic for him. He has to go through lots of beatings and constantly being taken advantage of throughout his whole journey. What made me feel hopeful or Enrique is that he was able to eventually see his mother, and that hopefully more kids can be reunited with their mothers or families, I’d prefer though that it was legally but I am happy for Enrique that he was able to see his mother. I don't think that Enrique’s Journey shouldn't be a necessary read as I think it tells a good story yet has no thing that really is learned from it, as lots of times what it is sharing goes

In my opinion I thought that this book was a very good book. In this chapter I will describe the setting, theme, plot and conflict etc. This book had a few different settings like

Overall the book was a good read and touched on some various topics that are discussed in our class.

There were a few points in this book that taught me about life and how crazy it can be sometimes. The photographer named Fulgencio was very afraid of hitch hiking to Mexico City with a stranger, especially with all of us expensive equipment. On the ride, Fulgencio is so paranoid that the guy is going to kill him, he grabs a machete out of the back of the truck. In doing so he gets kicked out of the car and loses all of his photography equipment anyways. This taught me that we need to trust each other more, Just because there are a few crazy people in the world, we shouldn't let them give us all a bad name. I mean, the guy picked Fulgencio up when he was in desperate need of a car, and gives him a ride. He should have been thankful, not picked up a machete and threaten the guy. Another thing this book taught me was that just because your sister doesn't want your kid anymore because she

A text from the chapter that stuck with me the most was an Italian group discriminating against Mexicans, not letting them rent their hall to Mexicans. In page 13, the owners of the Italian hall get told that in Italy they wouldn’t prejudice like that, the Italians simply reply with “No, but we are becoming Americanized”. This stood out to me the most because it gives an idea of what others thought it took to be an

I did actually really like this book. I was not sure if I was going to enjoy it when the project was first assigned, but after reading for a while, I became really interested

I enjoyed the chapter, Mohammed Meets Madonna from the book The Middle of Everywhere and I thought the author’s journals of the students were interesting. I like that Mary Pipher wrote a little about all the students that were in the English Language Learner class. I thought this gave the audience a good idea of the variety of backgrounds and attitudes that the students had. For example, there are students who are in gangs, like Khoi and Cahn, and then there are students who are tenderhearted, like Velida and Tharaya. Some of the students in the ELL class wanted to learn and had dreams of going to college, while others just wanted to get out of school. I found this difference between these students interesting because I know that when I become a teacher, I will also have a wide variety of students. These journals made me realize some of the challenges I will have to overcome as a future teacher.

The best part to learn from in my opinion is the Epilogue where the Chavez speaks to the lives of undocumented immigrants inside the political and social environment that has recently "shadowed" to be stricter on illegal

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.

Similarly, the book also carries a strong message that shows how strong Mexican Americans were during this time era. The story had many devastating parts, but many really show how

There were a few things about the reading that I didn’t exactly enjoy. La Cruz’s writing style is quite different from most that I have read. Her sentence structure is sometimes very difficult to follow being she incorporates many commas, semi-colons, and adverbs. This adds length to the, already difficult to understand, sentences and causes me to sometimes forget the subject matter of the actual sentence. Also, she constantly reminds the Bishop of how insignificant she is and how magnificent he is. I cant tell if she is being serious all the time or if she is being sarcastic in some of her statements. She also begins a lot of her sentences with the word “and” which I have always been taught never to do.

Her pastoral sensitivity and spiritual wisdom permeate this small but potent book, and she is adamant that there is fertile ground to be found “between secularism and the religious institutions of Christianity” (1).

To begin when talking about her relative that lived on the border but had to leave because of the living conditions on the border are so unbearable. She uses a tone that is a angry, sad, with a hint of being upset with phrases like “she speaks of her life away and her reasons for leaving with great pain” (61). Also “At least up north, in spite of discrimination, alien foods, and cold weather, there were jobs”(61)  The combo of how the writer uses tone and style makes the reader understand the gravity of her story. With being able to connect to the story on a deeper level will make an effect that makes you feel similar to the point where you connect as a person to the story therefore you want to listen to her. The last use of style is during the ending paragraph where she uses a blend of emotion and assertion to give you a picture that she is talking to you person to person. She has gained your trust and is now talking to you frankly telling you that these people are in pain and are struggling everyday “This is our reality, and we especially we Chicanos and Chicanas, Negotiate in our daily lives” (62). But this is to be expected when you are in the clash of two types of worlds colliding. She goes on to say though they are treated as aliens and constantly are reminded that they are the otherness of the country what she calls “This in essence is the greatest

People spend a significant part of their lives listening and talking, that is the main reason why conversation is regarded to be the most generalised form of talk that concerns both speakers and listeners and it is contemplated to be the essential ingredient in co-operative undertaking (Wardhaugh, 1985). Conversation is informal talk involving two or more people and interviews are a particular type of conversation. Interviews are regarded as meetings at which a journalist asks questions in order to find out the interviewee’s opinion. This is an assignment that analyses a telephone interview, so there is an absence of eye contact, body language or facial expressions that are attributes of a ‘live’

Intro: Molly Worthen is an accomplished PhD graduate from Yale University, and novelist of “Apostles of Reason: The Crisis of Authority in American Evangelicalism” and “The Man on Whom Nothing Was Lost: The Grand Strategy of Charles Hill.” (Worthen). Spending most of her life studying religion and namely ideology in North American Society.