The last third of the book didn't satisfy me in many ways. I wanted there to be a satisfying ending where Enrique reunited happily with his mother and Maria Isabella. Something that would make the tone of the last part of the book a little less dismal. You follow Enrique through this long journey and pretty much all of it is pretty depressing. You see all these obstacles and challenges that he has to overcome and they all cause Immigrants to either loose there life or be severely maimed or injured. but instead it he comes to america thinking his mother resents him and has to start figuring out how to live a new life. "The relationship between Enrique and his mother, including the resentment of immigration children having been left behind..." (292). He comes to this new country thinking his mother doesn't even love him and she had been resenting him this whole time. Now he has to start a new life find a way of making money and earn his mothers love back (In his mind) even though she never stopped. It wasn't a very grand finale which I was looking for after the depressing lead up to it. It could be a little bit better to end a long dismal book.
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