The Mothers Depicted In Enrique's Journey

Imagine your mother giving the responsibility to some relatives to take care of you so she can move to another country with no guarantee when she will be back or if she will ever come back. This is what the majority of the kids in South America has to deal with. The mothers, who are usually single, leave their children with other family members, go to the U.S to find a job that will fulfil their children 's basic needs. Since they go illegally, the mothers have to risk their lives riding on top of freight trains, they may be raped, die of starvation, and may be deported several times in their journey. Many mothers may not have enough money to hire a smuggler so they would have to travel alone without any help. Their mothers do not abandon them for their selfish reasons, but they …show more content…
If the mothers survive the journey and reach the U.S, they will send money to provide for their children 's needs, but they will not see their children for many years so mothers will miss important milestones in their children 's lives. In “Enrique’s Journey,” Lourdes did not see Enrique for eleven years and did not see Belky for seventeen years after she left in 1989. Lourdes was so distant from her children that she did not even recognize his voice when Enrique called her. To add to that, Lourdes and Enrique did not even know about each other 's likes and dislikes. A solution to prevent families from breaking apart is improving the economies of immigrant-sending countries.
In “Enrique’s Journey,” Enrique started using drugs to ease his loneliness from having no parents to take care of him. To be with his mother in the U.S, he traveled so many miles from