The major events that influenced Enrique’s attempt to reunite with his mother are when he must move from home to home, when he realizes that his mother will be his only salvation, and when he feels that everyone rejects him. After his mother leaves him, Enrique is sent to live with his father and his grandmother, but his father leaves him for another wife, and his grandmother grows too old to take care of him. Enrique later goes to live with his uncle in a comfortable house where he is loved by the family, but because of his uncle’s dangerous job of exchanging money, he is killed by robbers. Enrique travels to his maternal grandmother’s home seeking shelter, and she lets him stay in the crowded house. Enrique eventually decides that his mother
