Thursday, March 6, 2014
In Enrique's Journey I had to read up to page 98, and the conflict in the story is completely obvious. A reporter is investigating and studying the immigration patterns of young children trying to get into the United States where either their mothers are who are providing money for them there or going there in order to provide for their family. Enrique's mother grew up without a mother, she left when he was 5. He lived with relatives threw out his life because he constantly misbehaved in school and to his family. When he finally graduated elementary school he began working to provide money for his grandmother with whom he lives with. When he turns 15 he meets a young girl named Maria Isabel and he falls in love with her and she soon falls in love with him as well. She never want to have a baby with Enrique but Enrique believes that if he gets her pregnant she will have to love him and care about him. That's all he ever wanted from everybody. His mother worked in America with many different job in order to pay her rent, send money to Honduras for her two children and to feed herself and the baby she had in America. She struggles intensely. She works in various restaurants and selling food to peoples doorsteps. then she moved out of California and found a more steady job as a waitress and a nanny, but she couldn't handle caring for children that weren't hers. She would right to Enrique and send $50 a month. Enrique would write back to her responding how much he wants to be with her. When Enrique turned 16, he developed a drug problem. This affected the entire family entirely, not only by his actions but because he owed money to various drug dealers. He received many death threats from the drug dealers and he became scared. So Enrique decided that he was going to travel to America to his mother and live there with her and help her work. His family doesn't want him to go but in spite of them he leaves. The reporter studies the journey that he takes to further understand the hardships immigrants take in order to get a better life. And it is definitely not what she expected.
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Skylar, it looks like you didn't understand the directions?
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ReplyDeleteEnrique endured many hardships during his travels. He attempted over seven times to cross the border into the United States. He was beaten, robbed, and thrown off of trains. Every time he was caught by the la migra though, he would always start off where he started in Guatemala. I wanted to learn more about the reasoning behind traveling across the border if it was so dangerous. According to the Examiner, poverty in countries such as Mexico have reached an all time height as we have began to enter into the 21st century. Families in Mexico are struggling to feed, or even provide shelter for their children. Mexican families quite often have bigger families than the average American family, meaning they have more mouths to feed. The main reason that Mexican immigrants attempt o cross the border so many times is because they want to travel to America to find a better life. Hundred of immigrants manage o get across the border in order to save their family from the hardships they endure in Mexico. Enrique's mother crossed the border in order to provide money fro Enrique and his sister s they will no longer have to g to bed hungry every night. Al she ever wanted for Enrique was for him to continue his education so he could get a job and raise money for his family. But Enrique like many other of his classmates only graduated from elementary school because their families needed them to get jobs in order to feed the family. Hundred of immigrants are caught crossing the border and are sent back to where they came from, but hundreds of immigrants also manage to cross the border into the United States as well. That is what encourages people the most I believe. Dangers and hazards of crossing I things such as rape, robbery, being beaten or even worse killed. But the bond and love of one another's family member is too strong for them to quite trying and I completely admire that.