Enrique’s dilemma is to decide to stay in the United States or go back to Honduras. This quotation from the book, “He even begins to make plans… He does not want to live apart from his mother anymore” (Nazario 235), proves why Enrique wants to stay in America. This passage explains how much Enrique loves his mother and how he can not bear to be separated from her. If he goes back to Honduras, that means he will have to leave Lourdes, because Lourdes wants to stay in the U.S. where they can lead a better life. Enrique travelled more than 1,000 miles all the way, facing all sorts of dangers from Honduras, through Mexico, to get to America just to be with his mother. His mother is the biggest motivation for him to stay in America, and other motivations