Immigration, a word that means to come and live in a foreign country. This is a desire for some for many reasons: jobs, a better income, to locate a loved one, or a better life. However, this is not always feasible, so they find another way. In Sonia Nazario’s book “Enrique’s Journey: The Boy Left Behind” she writes about the true events of the real-life issues of immigration through the eyes of a young teenaged boy on his desperate search to be with his mother again.…
On an early Friday morning in 1997 at her Los Angeles home , Pulitzer prize winning national bestselling author Sonia Nazario, had an unexpected and personal conversation with her Guatemalan housekeeper Carmen. This conversation sparked a curiosity on why mothers from Central America, like Carmen, would leave their children & family for a life in the United States. This curiosity ultimately led to Nazario creating her book, “Enrique's Journey”, in which she uses several rhetorical devices, appeal to ethics and appeal to logic, to chronicle the experiences of a young Honduran boy’s journey to find his distant mother living in the United States and to highlight the issue of child immigration in the U.S. Nazario uses appeal to ethics when she…
Her book is ripe with statistics and factual evidence that help her audience solidify Enrique 's story, as well as keep in mind that this isn 't just Enrique 's story. It 's the story of millions of immigrants in the United States. She reinforces the dangers children face throughout the book with studies such as one by the University of Houston which found that "children who travel on top of trains are likely to be robbed, beaten, raped, or killed"(320). She also appeals to logic by demonstrating that because of the economic conditions in South America, mothers are forced to flee, which in turn pushes their children in search of their…
Parent’s Dreams are Sometimes Their Children’s Nightmare The book The Distance Between Us by Reyne Grande is a memoir of Grande and her family. The Grande family consists of her mother, Juana Rodriguez, father Natalio Grande, older sister Magloria “Mago” and brother Carlos Grande. Natalio mother and Grande grandmother is Abuelita and Tio is her uncle. These several family members play a large role in Grande life.…
Both The Red Umbrella, by Christina Diaz Gonzalez and “A Band-Aid For 800 Children,” by Eli Sastow show a common subject of Immigration and its effects. Some of the techniques used by the authors are the same and some are different, but both stories have a similar subject of immigration. There are many similarities between The Red Umbrella and, “A Band-Aid For 800 Children.” One of these similar technique in both of these texts is figurative language. In The Red Umbrella, it says, “The slow realization that nothing I said or did could change his mind washed over me.”…
Countries in Central America are plagued with poverty, overruned by gang violence and ruled by government systems that don’t do enough for their people. The author of Enrique 's journey, Sonia Nazario paints a vivid picture of the circumstances that lead loving mothers to leave their children behind while venturing across America, in order to get to the promise land. A land charged with hopes and promises. Promises that are not always kind to immigrants. Immigrant mothers risk everything in order to give their kids back home, everything.…
Immigrants come to the United States of America for economic opportunities, safer living conditions, etc. When immigrants travel to America, they experience a culture shock and several of them take years before they can feel integrated into society, and sometimes numerous of immigrants never completely adapt. In Everyday Illegal by Joanna Derby some immigrants are illegal and deal with other situations besides being an outsider in a foreign land. There are some negative consequences of parents and/ or children’s undocumented status in families. “At any moment he arrives, he grabs the yellow pages and he says, ‘I am going to call immigration right now, the police.’…
By reading this book the reader can understand the struggle and sacrifice that immigrants go through to obtain a better life. This book addresses many controversial issues including: immigration, rape, gangs, drugs, teen pregnancy, abandonment, and poverty. Hearing Enrique’s story is sad yet inspiring. The idea of a mother leaving her children in another country and not being able to see them grow up is unthinkable for women in the United States but it is very common in Latin American countries. Enrique’s mother, Lourdes, had to make the difficult decision to leave Enrique and his sister in Honduras while she traveled to America in order to help provide for them and give them a better life.…
Martin Rammo Mr. Brazzel ENG 102 – Final Essay MLA 30 April 2016 Open Adoption "You planted your garden; you have to live in it". Those were the words of Moriah Dialer, an unmarried 19 years old pregnant woman. She was a college dropout, working as a waitress in West Virginia. After getting pregnant, Moriah considered having an abortion. She didn't have any money, and her parents wouldn't pay for the procedure.…
Nearly 60,000 unaccompanied migrant children were apprehended along the U.S. Mexico border between October 2013 and September 2014. Is there anything more frustrating than wanting a happy life, but knowing that it will never happen without help along the way? How does wanting to sacrifice everything you have to reach a dead end sound? These are a few minor, yet inconvenient effects Enrique experienced in wanting to attain a substantial lifestyle with his mother. While others ambitions are chasing a dream, Mexican and Central American children are opened up to so much terror along the way, trying to reach the American dream.…
This ongoing cycle of mothers leaving their kids and then the kids going to find their mothers is displayed by Enrique himself. Enrique unintentionally started his own family and left his child to find his mother. Chances are Enrique’s child will grow up longing for its father, thus continuing the cycle. Nazario provides us with factual evidence and specific examples that make it easier for us to get a grip of the journey from Central America to the United…
Myth: There are not enough loving families that want to foster a child. Fact: There are more families that consider foster than any other form of adoption. Blog Idea: There are many people that believe there are not enough loving families in the area that are willing to foster a child. However, in 2012, Harris Interactive and The Dave Thomas Foundation for Adoption directed a study that shows 1 in 5 American adults or around 47 million Americans have considered adoption from foster care.…
The debate over the rights of immigrants or refugees remains unresolved and countries seem to be increasingly hostile towards these groups of individuals. Though the issue of immigration is often debated with emphasis purely on the economic effects of immigration, I believe that often the social side of immigration is forgotten. When we debate legislation, we speak about the jobs that immigrants might take, but we never speak about the way in which an immigrant’s family unit is affected by the harsh laws against immigration. This issue is of particular importance to me because I have seen, as well as read about, the effects of the harsh immigration laws on families and I hope that in the future no family will have to go through the hardships unnecessarily created by unfair immigration laws. When I was a child, my family hired a part time nanny to help take care of my…
The benefits of immigration Immigration is one of the biggest issue now. The united states has always had its door open for immigrations, but lately because of the recent political climate, the view on immigration has change. However, it has many valuable benefits to keep the value of immigration. We have to consider its value. It should be supported since it leads to economic independence, strengthening of families, and the creation of a peaceful environment.…