Pablo's Life Story

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

Enrique’s Journey written by Sonia Nazario is a work of non-fiction that follows the journey of a young Central American boy to find his mother Lourdes, who left him at the age of five. Before Nazario introduces Enrique she discusses the experiences she put herself through to gain a better understanding of the travels a migrant child and adult go through in their conquest to make it to the United States. While going through the trials that many migrants put themselves through Nazario learns the stories of different migrants and begins her search for a migrant child to bring attention to their story and create awareness about the situation children migrating are enduring to find their mothers in the United States. Nazario traces Enrique’s steps to experience his full journey and to describe the details in depth upon writing about the journey Enrique took to find his mother in the United States.

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.

CHOOSE 4 TO WRITE ABOUT 1 PARAGRAPH EACH Page 225 of the Afterward asks “Is immigration good for the migrants themselves? Is it good for the countries from which they are migrating? Is it good for the United States and its citizens?” Answer these questions, supporting your answer with information found in

The hardships one would encounter in their lives have become a part of our society, because they act as stepping stones to build ourselves with trials to reach any higher ground. It’s ready is the best, and worst possible actions we have done to ourselves.

Michelle Tulej Period: 2 The Boy and His Journey Immigration is a very dangerous and risky journey. Everyday immigrants try so hard to make it to the United States. This journey involves parents trying to support kids back home, families trying to start over, or kids trying to get to their mom; but some do not make it through this hardship. Those individuals, who make it, try like never before to support themselves and the family they needed to leave behind. Enrique’s Journey by Sonia Nazario is a well written novel that uses many pathos, logos, and ethos examples. Each one of them is used effectively because of the way students are persuaded in believing there true. Elements from the quotes can reveal that Sonia is knowledgeable and

 Enrique’s Journey Case Study Samantha Wix Our Lady of the Lake University According to President Obama (2014), “If we are serious about economic growth, it is time to heed the call of business leaders, labor leaders, faith leaders, and law enforcement- and fix our broken immigration system. Republicans and Democrats in the Senate

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.

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.

The authors in the books Catch the Moon, Enrique’s Journey and The Odyssey address the idea that separation can affect a person’s life. There are many ways that separation can affect someone's life but the common one in these three books is change in personality. Change in personality can be a good thing or a bad thing. However, characters in these stories transitioned in a bad way. The books Catch The Moon by Judith Cofer, Enrique’s Journey by Sonia Nazario and The Odyssey by Homer reveal the idea that separation from someone you love can completely change you, it can lead to personal transformation.

community such as Fort Morgan is greatly expanding, the population grows everyday and according to surburbanstats.com this town now holds 11,329as of 2014. The great organization of One City, One Book has the power to create interaction between citizens you haven’t even known were right around the corner from you.

One day me and my class had a school store, Kaydence bought a candy called bean boozled. “Corey come here” she yelled so i went, she asked “ do you want some bean boozled.” “ya sure” i replied i took a piece and ate it but it was dog

History and background: Pablo Escobar was really well known drug dealer in the early 90’s. He belonged from Antioquia, Colombia. From the beginning he had an ambition to build himself amongst the high personality. However he did not belong to a wealthy family, so he had a concept that to achieve his goal he has no other path rather than crime. His father was a farmer and mother was a school teacher. From a very early age Pablo had a dream to become the president of Colombia. He could not achieve what he had so easily so he started as a thief, and gradually entered the smuggling business.

I choose to research “El Pablo Escobar”, because his lifestyle caught my eye. I instantly caught interest in wanting to know more of what he’s like. Other people in the world think El Pablo Escobar was born from hell, I think he was a person trying to survive in this cruel world. We all do things that we’re not proud of, but that’s just the nature of life. We do unusual things that some people just don’t understand, some of us grew up poor or mentally abused in our own mind. Creates people like El Pablo Escobar who become so violent in nature, they become the wolf not the sheep. I’ll be also writing about the way he grew up to become so successful in the person he became, and the ways he gained power.

The author of this book, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, was born in Aracataca, Colombia in 1928. Marquez was raised by his grandparents and his grandfather was a Liberal veteran who fought in the Thousand Days War. His grandfather was a colonel who was highly respected and considered a hero by Colombian