In Enrique's Journey the author Sonia Nazario describe with intense reality many difficulties throughout the child separation from the mother and the consequences from such distress fact. The two children Belky and Henrique were left in Honduras with the family in reason the mother tried better opportunities in the USA. During many years Henrique had hard time to comprehend the family split, that cause the child to feel neglected in his childhood. In order to understand the mother unreasonable departure, Henrique drove himself to a dangerous adventure to cross the borders and reach the American dream to find his mother. The experience took hundred twenty two days in such crazy, dangerous and precarious environment to finally hug his mother again. Enrique is my favorite character in the book for outline a child desire to meet the mother after years of
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They tried to find better way to provide the essential for their families, this is the reason many people separated from their children. In Lourdes Henrique’s mother case was not different. Nazario wrote “She can barely afford food for him and his sister, Belky, who is seven. She’s never been able to by then a toy or a birthday cake” (6). The mother was obligated to leave the children with the family to take the dangerous illegal immigrant’s journal in pro to afford decent future. The upcoming destination the United States ensured the potential possibility to make money and be able to provide the necessities at home. Lourdes left Honduras without say goodbye to your son “Dónde está mi mami? Henrique cries, over and over. Where is my mom?”(Nazario 5). The first abandoned feeling showed up in Henrique’s life since the mother departure. She left not just the children back but immense space in their lives. They had lived in a poor reality in Honduras, so that was not understandable for young children, they missed the mother with all they
They tried to find better way to provide the essential for their families, this is the reason many people separated from their children. In Lourdes Henrique’s mother case was not different. Nazario wrote “She can barely afford food for him and his sister, Belky, who is seven. She’s never been able to by then a toy or a birthday cake” (6). The mother was obligated to leave the children with the family to take the dangerous illegal immigrant’s journal in pro to afford decent future. The upcoming destination the United States ensured the potential possibility to make money and be able to provide the necessities at home. Lourdes left Honduras without say goodbye to your son “Dónde está mi mami? Henrique cries, over and over. Where is my mom?”(Nazario 5). The first abandoned feeling showed up in Henrique’s life since the mother departure. She left not just the children back but immense space in their lives. They had lived in a poor reality in Honduras, so that was not understandable for young children, they missed the mother with all they