In the book, Enrique's Journey, a boy named Enrique goes on the dangerous journey to find his mother, Lourdes. Enrique and his family are from the country Honduras. In light of the fact that Honduras is the second poorest country in Central America, many families including Enriques family are struggling financially. In Honduras, Lourdes is extremely poor and lives in a decrepit place with her two kids, Enrique and Belky. In a country where nearly half live on $1 or less a day, kids from poor neighborhoods almost never go to college. Lourdes cannot afford uniforms or pencils for her kids to go to school. “He and Belky are not likely to finish grade school ”(Nazario 4). When it comes to a loved one or family, one will do whatever is necessary and even go beyond their limits for them.
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Any mother would want the best for her children, immigrant or not. The United States is known as “the land of opportunities”, it can be troublesome for people in the same situation as Lourdes who want the better opportunity but are not a legal citizen of the United States. Lourdes does succeed in migrating to the United States and starts working as a factorum. Working in the United States, Lourdes is able to make enough money to send back home to her kids so they will go to school pass the third grade. Enrique is only five years old when his mother left to the U.S, he starts missing her deepy and asks for her everyday. As Enrique gets older he has little hope that his mom will come back due to all the failed promises she made to come back home to see him. Both Lourdes kids start to feel as if their mother have abandon them. Finding out their mom had another baby in the U.S starts to anger both as they feel forgotten and
Any mother would want the best for her children, immigrant or not. The United States is known as “the land of opportunities”, it can be troublesome for people in the same situation as Lourdes who want the better opportunity but are not a legal citizen of the United States. Lourdes does succeed in migrating to the United States and starts working as a factorum. Working in the United States, Lourdes is able to make enough money to send back home to her kids so they will go to school pass the third grade. Enrique is only five years old when his mother left to the U.S, he starts missing her deepy and asks for her everyday. As Enrique gets older he has little hope that his mom will come back due to all the failed promises she made to come back home to see him. Both Lourdes kids start to feel as if their mother have abandon them. Finding out their mom had another baby in the U.S starts to anger both as they feel forgotten and