Analysis Of Sonia Nazario´s Enrique's Journey

Enrique’s Journey by Sonia Nazario tells of a perseverant Honduran mother by the name of Lourdes. She comes to the United States in hopes of landing a job, so that she may send money home to her children in Honduras. Lourdes’s determination pays off and she is hired at many domestic jobs, such as babysitting and house cleaning. Although she is now able to send adequate support to her children, her absence consequently causes emotional turmoil. Enrique yearns for his mother, to the point where he is willing to risk his life to be with her.

In July 1999, due to the poverty they were going through, Yanira, Max, and Alirio, made the hard decision of leaving all they had and their families, to seek a better life, and a better future for their families. They first had to come up with the money, to pay the person to get through Guatemala and Mexico illegally (El Coyote). On Monday the 5th, they took off on their journey, leaving El Salvador, in just a couple of hours. They spent 3 days in a hotel in Guatemala city, waiting to cross over to Mexico. This is when the suffering begins, Yanira relates how they walk through the mountains, through the darkness of the night.

In chapter two of the book Enrique’s Journey, Enrique has made a total of seven attempts trying to cross the borders. In the first attempt, la migra caught Enrique and his friend, Jose del Carmen Bustamante, while they were riding the train from Honduras and to Veracruz in Central Mexico. They got sent back to Guatemala on El Bus de Lagrimas, the Bus of Tears. In the second attempt, Enrique traveled alone and got caught by the police. They, once again, put him on the bus and sent him back to Guatemala.

Refugee is a book by Alan Gratz and its genre is historical fiction. The book follows 3 kids Josef 1930, Isabel 1994, Mahmoud 2015. Josef is a Jewish boy that doesn't want to go to a concentration camp so he and his family board a ship so they can make it to the safety of America.

One of the social issues in the film El Norte is losing one’s identity. The identity of Rosa and Enrique were continuously challenged by their community. Rosa and Enrique had to give up their identity as they migrate to El Norte for the purpose of safety and security. At El Norte, both Rosa and Enrique adapted new values deemed appropriate and essential in their new community. Their effort to adapt new values is highlighted, especially when Enrique had to choose between working out of states or staying with Rosa.

The book Enrique’s Journey by Sonia Nazario is a nonfiction book based on a real story told throughout 367 pages. The reason why I decided to read this book is that it was highly recommended by one of my former English teachers. I was extremely persuaded to read this book by her but I also personally believed that by reading this book I would gain a new understanding of life by really opening my mind to new experiences that other people go through.

Sex, Stereotypes, and Success: A Rhetorical Analysis on Rita Moreno A Memoir “There was a death toll, a nervous-breakdown toll. But this was lotus land, City of Angels, Hollywood-and no one kept a body count.” (Moreno Pg. 140) In Rita Moreno The Memoir, Moreno exercises stunning imagery alongside a masterful use of juxtaposition to illustrate the past's impact on the future.

As a result of the low economy, and constant wars, due to the United States funding Latin American countries’ military and police forces, which are usually controlled by gangs and cartels, Latin Americans are feeling unsafe in their home countries. Latin Americans seemed forced to flee due political and financial barriers (Abrego 26). As established in Abrego’s book, fathers who migrated during the civil war claimed that it was because a family member was being persecuted and they seemed to face life or death situations constantly (Abrego 32). These persecutes common in Latin America even when there is not a war due to gangs and cartels having more money and being more manipulative they control authorities and use them to attack anything that

Have you ever wondered what all immigrants have in common? In the Bean Trees by Barbra Kingsolver it tells about some immigrants from Guatemala. The immigrant experience is classified by not giving up, escaping a past worse life, and making sacrifices. In the bean trees it follows Esparanza, and Estevan two immigrants from Guatemala.

The novel America is in the Heart by Carlos Bulosan focuses on the inevitable realities of an immigrant experience into the United States. Bulosan invites the reader to experience the reality of an immigrant through an Asian- American perspective as they are faced with poverty. As Carlos seems to enter the Americas he finds himself facing racism and economic exploitation. Therefore, Bulosan describes the intense poverty of the Philippines that pushes Carlos, the protagonist to leave to America but at the same time questioning the America as the land of opportunities. Although Carlos leaves his land to enter the America’s for better opportunities, he finds himself in a world in which he has to face racism, economic exploitation and violence