Rhetorical analysis Throughout Sonia Nazario’s book, Enrique’s Journey, she effectively uses her knowledge of language to argue against the many dangers of child immigration The author aims the stories toward a general audience nationwide to inform and make them understand what most of the illegal immigrants originating from South and Central America go through during their trek to the United States. The rhetorical strategies that the author incorporates emphasize her main points as well as reinforce her credibility. In hopes of reaching their long lost loved ones, Nazario creates intense emotional appeals through the many stories of young children’s hardships and devastating losses. Sonia Nazario’s portrays essential emotional appeals
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He begins to realize the astonishing amount of work that lay ahead of him as Enrique struggled to formulate a logical plan to complete the multiple phone calls needed to receive his moms home number again back in Honduras. Nazario explains the struggle he endures crossing the border, “For the two phone calls, he needs two telephone cards. Fifty pesos apiece….He cannot beg 100 pesos. People in Nuevo Laredo won’t give…” (Nazario, 138) The money needed to complete the phone calls would need to derive from Enrique’s determination and hard work earning pesos. The author explains Enrique’s money-making plan, “So he will work by himself. For migrant children, there are few options: shining shoes, selling gum or candy on the sidewalk, or washing cars. He’ll wash cars.” (Nazario, 139) Enrique worked the hardest at any hour of the night along with the many skeptical coyotes, junkies, and criminals, looking to make that same exact peso. The logical reasoning Enrique needed at a young age to complete such a simple task such as a telephone call does not register with the average United States citizen carrying an Iphone. The author, Nazario, relates back to this disconnect experienced along her own journey when she states, “Although I often felt exhausted and miserable, I knew I was experiencing only an iota of what migrant children go through. At the end of a long train ride, I would pull out my credit card, go to a motel, shower, eat, and sleep.” (Nazario, xxi) Throughout her own tireless journey from Central America to the United States, the author provides great detail and facts about the amount of immigrants that migrate
He begins to realize the astonishing amount of work that lay ahead of him as Enrique struggled to formulate a logical plan to complete the multiple phone calls needed to receive his moms home number again back in Honduras. Nazario explains the struggle he endures crossing the border, “For the two phone calls, he needs two telephone cards. Fifty pesos apiece….He cannot beg 100 pesos. People in Nuevo Laredo won’t give…” (Nazario, 138) The money needed to complete the phone calls would need to derive from Enrique’s determination and hard work earning pesos. The author explains Enrique’s money-making plan, “So he will work by himself. For migrant children, there are few options: shining shoes, selling gum or candy on the sidewalk, or washing cars. He’ll wash cars.” (Nazario, 139) Enrique worked the hardest at any hour of the night along with the many skeptical coyotes, junkies, and criminals, looking to make that same exact peso. The logical reasoning Enrique needed at a young age to complete such a simple task such as a telephone call does not register with the average United States citizen carrying an Iphone. The author, Nazario, relates back to this disconnect experienced along her own journey when she states, “Although I often felt exhausted and miserable, I knew I was experiencing only an iota of what migrant children go through. At the end of a long train ride, I would pull out my credit card, go to a motel, shower, eat, and sleep.” (Nazario, xxi) Throughout her own tireless journey from Central America to the United States, the author provides great detail and facts about the amount of immigrants that migrate