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Sonia Nazario's Influence On Literature

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Sonia Nazario influenced literature by describing specifics of the story. Sonia has influenced literature by showing how important its to describe the story or stories and journeys of the people of other countries. "I was stuck by the choice mothers face when they leave their children. How do they make such an impossible decision? Among Latinos, where family is all-important, where for women motherhood is valued far above all else, why are droves of mothers leaving their children? What would I do if I were in their shoes?". This quote is describing how hard it is for immigrant mothers to leave their children to give them a better life. Many mothers every year have to or they decide to leave their children behind to be able to support their children's life for school and food. Many mothers suffer for leaving but they have to so that their children can live a better life. …show more content…

Most of them just show how hard it is for them to live in Central American countries. Mothers leave their children, young kids join gangs because they feel left out, families lose love for each other, they are very poor and can't support each other with school supplies of sometimes even food. People live among a lot of murder also they have to try to survive by selling things to earn a little bit of money for food. Most of the 90% of people in those type of countries. Most of them don't graduate school and even some of them don't even go to school because of the parents aren't able to pay for their education. Most families because of discard conditions are separated more and more kids will always be blaming their mothers for all the situation they are going thru. Moms are desperate to give their children a better life they become more and more stressed out by the

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