Children Depicted In Enrique's Journey

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. But sometimes everything is nothing if children don’t have their mothers to share everything with. The protagonist of Enrique 's Journey makes a risky trip to the States in search of his mother. With only a few blurred images of her face, Enrique stops at nothing to be reunited once more with the warm embrace of his mother.
Sonia Nazario fallowed Enrique on top of freight trains for many months, and recorded everything she came in contact with. She wrote about the dangers and the misfortunes that immigrants from different parts of Central America have to undergo in order to make it to the States. And if the writing wasn’t lively enough, the pictures that Sonia introduces in the book of the brutal reality of the journey, does a fine job of capturing the world through the eyes of …show more content…
The day to day struggle for an immigrant is beyond belief. If more people had the slightest vision of the scuffles that immigrants have to endure on the daily basis, I believe that the humanity part of America would have more sympathy. There would be different and more humane views towards immigration laws. If more people and scholars were educated on the conditions that deny certain people living in Mexico and Central America a chance of living a better life, then maybe we wouldn’t have borders. Borders and imaginary lines that separate different classes. Classes that bleed the same color when