How To Write An Essay On Enrique's Journey

Throughout Enrique’s Journey, Sonia Nazario employs the use of many different stories from people who have played a part in Enrique’s journey to the United States, or in the migrant journey as a whole. Many stories or backgrounds derive from people making the journey themselves, or some who may have helped the migrants in small of big ways. However, Nazario chooses to incorporate the backstories of people along the way, who may not be as eager, or be wary about the migrants and their situation, as well as migrants who may not have pure intentions for going on this journey. Incorporating these different viewpoints, depicts the complexity of the situation, the many layers hidden underneath, and displays how this migrant situation from Central …show more content…
Doubts such as these, are forever present in normal citizen’s live in Mexico City and other towns or places on the route the migrants take to the United States border. This doubt is a main reason why many residents refuse to help migrants, choosing to take the safer bet and simply turn them away. Many migrants, are in fact savage, and are journeying to the United States border for reasons that are not so honest and true. Unlike Enrique’s motives for journeying to the United States, many migrants are violent: “...same migrants grabbed him near the station. They tied his hands with barbed wire. They took his money, his watch, and his clothes. They beat him over the head with a machete. They left him naked” (Nazario 127). Sonia Nazario chooses to depict this side of the immigrant, showing that some migrants are not traveling for pure reasons, and can be enemies to other