Lourdes, Enrique’s mother, struggles to support her children, Belky and Enrique, in Honduras. She becomes aware that she will be unable to send her children to school past the third grade, but she is determined to not let he children live as she did, in poverty. Lourdes leaves her family and home, like many single mothers in recent years, for the United States so that she might send remittances home for her daughter and son. Enrique is shuffled from one home to another, during which he is never told of what has happened to his mother, as none will tell him an answer. Enrique sells spices and foods in order to assist paying for family needs and his sister, Belky, attends a decent school as their aunt cares for her. Enrique lives with his grandmother …show more content…
After giving birth to her daughter, Diana, Lourdes loses her factory job. She becomes a fichera, a type of prostitute and eventually finds steady work again. Lourdes is able to send money, clothing, and toys to her children in Honduras. Enrique and Belky appreciate the gifts, but there is no alternative for their mother’s presence. Enrique continues to escalate his drug problem until his drug dealer threatens to kill a cousin, so Enrique steals jewelry from his aunt to pay off the debts, but is caught by the police and is thrown out of his home again. Although he does not want to desert María Isabel, who is has become pregnant with their child, Enrique feels induced to go to his mother, the only person he believes might understand and love him. Enrique departs with almost no money, one extra pair of clothes, and his mother’s phone number written on a piece of paper. Enrique fails his first seven attempts, by where he is robbed, beaten, deported, and humiliated. To trek north, Enrique, like other migrants, must ride the tops of freight trains, a most dangerous …show more content…
He raises money and calls his mother, who pays for a smuggler to take Enrique into the United States. Inside an inner tube, Enrique traverses the river and is taken to Orlando, Florida. Enrique hasn’t seen his mother in many years and is finally reunited with her. Enrique and Lourdes hug each other, but neither cry. Enrique finds work after moving in with Lourdes and her roommates. The overemphasized reunion they both hoped for soon is crushed by actuality. Enrique imagined that if he found his mother, all his problems would vanish. Lourdes expects reverence for the sacrifices she had made for her family, but is greeted with only bitterness and sporadic malice. Enrique returns to his drug use for coping with his utter disappointment. During this, Maria Isabel is raising Jasmin, their daughter, in Honduras. Enrique sends money to his girlfriend and baby, like his mother did before him. Enrique desires to send money back to Maria Isabel to care for herself and Jasmin, but his personal problems with Lourdes blinds him and he doesn’t send much back. Later, he comes to peace with his problems and begins to save and send more. After a few years, Enrique hires a smuggler to bring Maria Isabel into the United States, leaving Jasmin behind to be cared for by Belky, Enrique’s
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.
While reading Enrique’s Journey, written by Sonia Nazario, a lot of themes were brought out throughout the book that served different meaning in Enrique’s story. The theme that stood out to me, was his journey because Enrique traveled all the way from Honduras to find his mom, who stayed in the United States. There are times in the book when he falls victim to his own shortcomings: doing drugs, tantalizing his mother, mismanaging his finances. He is ready to take yet another journey, this time marked by responsibility instead of adolescent rebellion and resentment. However, Enrique's journey is not only physical, but also mental as he grows from a boy to a man.
Enrique’s Journey AXES Paragraphs paragraph 1 Enrique had two decisions,to go back home in Honduras or to stay in the US with his mother. A quote from the book was “lourdes cooks for Enrique”this shows that his mother really loves him and even if he has been very bad,this would make Enrique want to to stay in the US. Every time Enrique would leave the house his mother would give him a big hug. This would make Enrique very happy and give him more of a reason to stay.he also makes decent money and lives a better life in america. On the other hand another quote from the book is “he tells lourdes he plans to leave her and return to honduras in two years”showing that he misses his girlfriend and wants to see his newborn daughter for
Esperanza and her mother made the choice to leave Mexico and go to California to work, and escape Tio Luis, which I believe to be a good decision. Before going, Esperanza was spoiled, rich, and quite full of herself, living in a high social class family, and in general thought of herself better than others. At first, she was against leaving everything she knew and loved, but in the end, found herself liking California. Esperanza made new friends, in particular, Isabel, who taught her many things, even though she was younger.
Age 7 In America Film Age 7 in America is a film narrated by Meryl Steep about detailed lives of 7-year olds from diverse social classes and ethnic backgrounds in the United States. They are fifteen kids in total. Each place of stay for the kid is mentioned and other details to do with the family status, family structure, and their different thoughts on issues such as drugs and crime, education, the opposite gender, on the future, on the world, and so on. Integrated into the film explanation is Bronfenbrenner’s theory as regards child development.
They didn't have to worry about being caught by the border control or anything, they were able to be in a safe place to liv and stay. Gabriel bought a house for his family to live in because they knew they were gonna need the space for the new arrival. Everyone was excited for the new baby except the youngest child, Eliza. Eliza liked having all the attention, now that there was a new arrival she knew she would have to fight to get it back. As her father worked hard long days to earn money for the family Eliza pondered why people don't get treated the same.
Enrique’s Journey by Sonia Nazario is the story about a boy in Honduras whose mother left him to pursue a better life in America. This story encompasses the coming of age period of Enrique’s life and many of his experiences can be related to by other children, even in different situations. Nazario develops an interesting novel that both documents the journey of Enrique to the United States but also creates a dramatic tone like a fiction novel would have. Through her diverse use of rhetorical strategies, Nazario was able to explain the positive and negative effects of family relationships through the life of Enrique. She does this by utilizing different literary devices, most evidently, nomos, in which she relates with the story and also opens
Alvarez and her family have a lot of trauma considering there lives in the dominican republic and living under the dictator,through it all alvarez's parents raised a daughter who would share their story in a fashionable matter that told the story how it was.
The abusive husband is Juan Pedro. Juan Pedro wants to take Cleofilas and move to Seguin, Texas and start a new life there. He can’t get a decent job and they live in a low-end home. He takes his frustration out on Cleofilas. He beats her, cheats on her, and yells at her for things that are not her fault.
In search for a better life outside of the Dominican Republic, Anita’s whole family tries to move to America. One day sitting in her room, Anita look out her window to see no one left on the compound. Anita explains, “I look out the door and down the dark driveway. The whole flock of our family has fled. Only Mami and Chucha and I are left (pg.100 p.9).”Her whole family has gone to America to be free, leaving everything behind.
Pedro was the seventh child besides all of his thirteen siblings. Benilda was physically abused by a sex worker and clients. He was kicked out of the house by his mom after having sexual intercourse with his younger sister. Lopes then ran away from this and went to Bogota. He became homeless along with many other young children, they were known as the “ gaminies”.
Gabriel, a vaquero, who exposes the love of the llano, expresses his way of life and freedom. Their kids, three eldest sons, two daughters, and youngest son Antonio, the protagonist, become
She gets know Rachel and her sister and they ordered from her some money to become a friend with her. Although she was broken and she hates to take money from her sister, she did give them money. Esperanza invest her money for friendship will last to the end of her life. Rachel and her sister were the free prisoners who save her Esperanza.
As a child, he is burdened with worry for his mother because she is not near him for many formidable years of his life. He is troubled by a perceived lack of love from his father, grandmother, and many members of his family still residing in Honduras. Enrique experiences the pressures of living within a low economic status when Lourdes is unable to send a sufficient amount of money for his livelihood. In later years, Enrique uses drug use as a coping mechanism and cannot release the stronghold that drugs have in his life so much so that he still uses drugs today. Enrique is also plagued with the increasing violence in his area.
So since the grandfather didn't want to take care of her he would send her to her real father in Mexicali every time they fought. But at the age of six that was the last time and her grandfather decided to leave her with her aunt Sandra. This girl was moved like an object in house to house with her stepmother, aunt Sandra, or her aunt Julia. Until the grade 6 when that was the last time she moved and that's when she stayed with her aunt Sandra and in the 7th grade she was in band which she loved and she was in the second highest class but in 8th grade she was in the highest