Nieves Sanchez's Childhood Analysis

Sonia Nazario tells a personal story in her 2007 novel, Enrique's Journey, and one in which a young Honduran boy places his life at risk in order to reach the United States and be with his mother. The main characters are Enrique, his grandmother, his girlfriend Maria Isabel, his sister Belky and the mother. Enrique’s mother, Lourdes, had to make the painful decision a mother could make, she had to leave her son because of the poverty in Honduras. Her plan was that once she was in America, she would send money for both her children, Enrique and his sister. Her son becomes resentful and turns to drugs, and then, at the age of seventeen, finally resolves to somehow make the journey and be with the mother who so inexplicably vanished.

In another account of rape on April 4, 2014, a sheriff’s deputy was convicted of rape where he pleaded no contest. Jose Sanchez was found guilty and sentenced to nine years in prison. He originally pulled over a woman in her car for an outstanding arrest warrant and then came to find she was drunk driving. Rather than arresting her there, he put her in the back of his patrol car and drove her out to the desert where he abused her and then drove her back to her car where he continued to sexually harass her. Two days later he pulled over a woman in her mid-thirties and bribed her in the form of a sexual activity .

Since Yankees Captain Derek Jeter's departure in 2014 following his epic, 20 year, 5 ring career, the Yankees have been a somewhat rudderless ship. Late during the 2016 campaign, rookie catcher Gary Sanchez exploded on the scene, blasting home runs at a record pace (he hit 20 in only 201 at-bats) after his call up to the big leagues in early August. Sanchez's ascendance was so rapid the Yankees relegated veteran starting catcher Brian McCann to the scrap heap, first benching him outright, then trading him in the off season to the Astros. Some were even speculating that Sanchez could be the possible heir apparent to Jeter as a future Yankee captain, such was his impact on offense, defense, but most importantly how he had handled the pitching

Many single parents venture out their native country to seek out for a better life. These single parents come to the U.S. leaving behind their children and home. As a result over 36,000 children decide to follow their parents and start their journey to the U.S. In the book, “Enrique’s Journey, Sonia Nazario depicts the life and journey of a young man named Enrique. At the age of five, Enrique gets left behind by his mother, who goes to the U.S. to look for a better life for her family and herself. Throughout the book, Enrique's life long attachment to his mother causes him to be brave and become determined to obtained that love and affection that he once felt by embark on a journey to find his mother in the U.S.

In defining one’s identity, many different factors are considered; such as one’s nationality, characteristic, personality, ability, experience, religion, and etc. Especially for those people who live in America, so called country of immigration, has much more complicated identities than those Asian country people where mixed people are rarely noticed. Thinking about the concept of identity, some people easily categorized themselves as simple factors and terms which could describe their surface; white, black, Asian, European, pretty, ugly, nice, mean and so on and so forth. And that is the most point where majority people stopped to list their identities from exploring more in complicated range. However, there are many people who dig more than common people; one great example would be Denise Chavez, who is the author of the novel called Loving Pedro Infante, who kept asking herself about her identity to approach more accurate and clear ideas. In her work, reader could see the confusion of Tere, the main character of the novel, went through her life as Latin-American female in dealing with finding one’s true identity and how she accept her as who she really is. Denise Chavez, who is obviously Latin-American lady, mirror her own life experience through the character she created and introduce to readers about tough life she lived in America as Mejicana. The main character of this novel have a clear understanding and strong idea about herself throughout the novel, even if

    Children are beautiful because they possess the quality of innocence. In Gary Soto’s autobiographical narrative “A Summer Life”, he recalls a boyhood experience that left him striped of his innocence and purity in the form of a glaring pie tin. Many different literary elements such as imagery, diction and repetition are used to recreate the experience of his guilty six-year old self.

The eldest daughter of Celia and Hector Sanchez, Emilia Sanchez, is twenty-eight years old. As an addict Emilia has to face fighting ways to remain sober, fight for custody of her son and handle the lack of support she has from her family. Emily is facing many encounters as she battles with addiction issues and struggles to remain sober. In order to address the client’s addiction issue, a social worker has to assess the client’s needs, be able to come up with intervention and treatment techniques, as well as evaluate the effectiveness of the treatment.

Sonia Nazario composes the story of a boy named Enrique. His life changes when his mother leaves him and his sister in Honduras as she travels to America to make a better life for herself and send money back to them. Enrique does not understand why his mother left him; he begins to rebel against his family and use drugs. Soon, his girlfriend is pregnant and Enrique must go to America to get money to support them. He attempts his journey seven times before he is successful. Enrique is robbed, beaten, and sent back to Honduras. On the eighth try he successfully makes it to his mother. He is quickly disappointed in what his mother has accomplished in America and starts drug use again. Soon, Enrique has to get clean to support his child in Honduras and he sends money for his girlfriend to meet him in America. His daughter is left in Honduras, continuing the cycle that many families struggle with. The authors use of logos and pathos enables the reader to take a deeper look of what is immigration.

In A Place Where the Sea Remembers, Sandra Benitez invites us into a mesmerizing world filled with love, anger, tragedy and hope. This rich and bewitching story is a bittersweet portrait of the people in Santiago, a Mexican village by the sea. Each character faces a conflict that affects the course of his or her life. The characters in this conflict are Remedios, la curandera of the small town who listens to people’s stories and gives them advice, Marta, a 16 year old teenage girl, who was raped and became pregnant. Chayo is Marta’s big sister and Calendario is Chayo’s husband. Justo Flores, his conflict is person vs. self. One of the most important conflicts in this story is person vs. person, then person vs. supernatural followed by

Junot Díaz’s “Fiesta, 1980” relates a story of Yunior, a young Dominican boy, and what he experiences in his family trip to a party. In narrating the story, Yunior employs a unique choice of a cultural shift in diction; there is a continuous change between English and Spanish words, which creates both a sense of familial intimacy and cultural struggle in adjusting to the United States. Additionally, Yunior tells the story in a past-tense narrative, thereby allowing himself the room to express a scene both in an immature perspective as a child, as well as a mature one as an older, more reflective version of himself. Altogether, the integration of two different languages and two different perspectives work together to portray a more holistic picture of Yunior’s childhood experience.

“You are too young to help anybody, and I am too old” (Maclean 81). The novel River Runs Through It by Norman Maclean, written in 1909, is a life changing story that presents criticism of the society of the time and today’s society through the topic of help. Throughout the book, Norman presents the issue and, ultimately, the danger of not helping those in need and being too stubborn to accept help. In the case of the novel, these issues ultimately lead to the death of Paul. So, Maclean wants us to understand that it is difficult to help a person without knowing what to do to help, and if the person is too stubborn to accept it.

Our childhood plays a significant role in defining the kind of person that we become and the type of life that we live.

Men and children’s views of the world vary due to the difference in the amount of exposure one has of the world. While men have experienced the evil that lies ahead, children are still virgins to the harsh truth that is the world around them. One lie that children always fall victim to is during the holidays. Kids are gullible in believing the parental lie of “Santa”. It is not till a child is told that Santa is not real that he or she loses a little innocence and grows in maturity. Similarly till the day a child gains knowledge of what society truly is outside their homes, they shall stay a child in their innocence. In the poems “Oranges”, by Gary soto and “Spring and Fall”, by Gerard Manley Hopkins. The authors speculate the loss of innocence and transition into maturity in children in two variations. Gary Soto looks at the loss of innocence in a brighter light as it is a child finding young love and becoming mature, while Hopkins story utilizes more of a Juvenalian dark tone because the character is forced into maturity.

Joss Whedon, a famous director, once said, “Everyone who made it through adolescence is a hero.” Adolescence is a difficult part of life where we learn to become independent and we discover who we are. Many books explore the theme of adolescence, and it is expressed in many different ways. In this story, Jerry, a eleven year-old boy, goes to the beach with his mother and he sees some boys swimming through a tunnel. Inspired by them, Jerry trains hard until he can also swim through the tunnel. In the short story “Through the Tunnel” the author, Doris Lessing, uses symbolism of setting and comparison to express the difficulty of the transition from childhood to adulthood.

Childhood is usually understood as a set of experiences and behaviours, gained in the early stages of the human existence, considered as the preparation for the adult world. However, the history of childhood is a very complex topic and it has become a very influential area of study in recent years. In 1962, the ‘Centuries of Childhood’ by Philippe Ariés introduced the idea that childhood was a new creation developed in recent centuries and as a concept it was believed to be nonexistent before the seventeenth century. This concept means that there was no awareness of the process of childhood. In several studies of the medieval period, Ariés noticed that childhood was not acknowledged or even attempted to be portrayed during this period. For