Kovic's "Born on the Fourth of July"

around and he needed to be sure that his followers understood that and they would not

Once he was placed back in the world of his family he was enlightened yet confused. He was unable to do anything with the powers he was given until he was older. As he came to be a man, he was blessed with a gift of helping people. He worked curing illnesses until he felt it was time that his life should take another turn.

He learned that politics, personal life, and Christianity were of the same piece. They were not three separate things but they were one.

He assumed, well educated people should not have been sent to war to fight for something they do not agree with. In fact, he believes that only those who agree with the Vietnam War should be the ones forming the military lines.

By teaching the ignorant mass opinions that there is different types of people in the world or not categorizing. He believed if prejudice were to be eliminated everyone would be forced to have the same beliefs or the same as the person in authority.

instance, he could have opened his mind to others ' ways of thinking or take a vote

live. This helps him endure physical pain because whenever he thinks of giving his life

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

as he stayed to die. He was encouraged and given the chance to escape by his

made each small point of his persuasion very easy to accept and as logical as possible so none of the rest could easily object to it

ascends into Heaven, thus creating that idea that one is capable of immortality, even if you have

he knows will come some day: “I shall die, and shall I not then be as

And although his fate is uncertain, we can conclude that for the first time instead of listening to the people and the environment around him, he listened to his conscious. This allows him to gain what he previously was aiming for and that is independence, and being his own

Finally, in his later years, he comes to understand that Heaven brings the process to an

for he believed that the only way to work out problems was from the outside and