The American Dream and Adversity When some people are in hard trouble in their lives and they feel like there is no hope anymore, they may think that they want to restart their lives in a new place. They may want to move other place which has better environment and opportunity by leaving their desperate situations. However, leaving hometown is not an easy issue. While they have hope and dream about new life, there will be another adversities that they expected or did not. The film El Norte, directed by Gregory Nava, depicts a journey of a brother and sister leaving their hometown, Guatemala, and going to the north, America. Enrique and Rosa, the indigenous people of Guatemala, lost their father and mother by the government troops in the early
