Barrio Boy Thesis

When someone undertakes a mission they have a long term goal in mind that they want to accomplish. These long term goals that they have set for themselves are used to get motivated and instead of doing something without knowing what the purpose is they have a guide to lead them to their goal. The three characters I have chosen stay motivated because they have people in their lives that have helped them and that they wanted to make proud. People are driven to undertake missions because many feel that they want to repay the people that supported them by making them proud.

In Ernesto Galarza’s memoir, Barrio Boy, Ernesto is arriving at a new school and has to face many challenges in order to accomplish his goal. The main reason for Galarza being motivated to reach his goal is Galarza’s teacher, Miss Ryan, who helped him through the many challenges he was facing and I feel as though he wanted to make Miss Ryan proud. In the text Galarza states “The main reason I graduated with honors from the first grade was that I had fallen in love …show more content…
Farah’s motivation was mainly her mother, throughout the story Farah stays strong through the worst times by thinking of her mother and knowing how much her mother is struggling. When Ahmedi says “Her asthma was pretty bad at this point, poor thing. No doubt, her anxiety made it worse, but in such circumstances how could she rid herself of anxiety?”, this shows how Ahmedi had sympathy for her mother and this is an example of one of Ahmedi’s mother’s struggles that kept Ahmedi going. Ahmedi’s goal was to make her mother proud and without having her mother there pushing her and reminding her that her mother was hurting a lot more than she was, Ahmedi would not have felt that she has a purpose of reaching her