Summary Of Reyna Grande's The Distance Between Us?

The novel, “The Distance between Us” by Reyna Grande is a story about children who lost their parents due to crossing the border and they don’t know when they will get back together. The three children in this novel are Carlos, Reyna and Mago and they feel abandoned by them. They were abandoned by their parents, and because of this they have been waiting for their mother and father to come back to them and they almost have no memory of them. The reason why they leave was because of economic circumstance and they wanted to achieve some success in life. The other side was filled of hopes and dreams and they wanted some of their dreams to come true. The effect of this decision on the children had a negative effect on them and this changed their …show more content…
If only they could have understood that their parents leaving them behind was only to better the lives of theirs and to give them a future. They wanted to build a home for themselves and for their children. The children were crying wanting to go with the mother because they didn’t want to be separated from them. They wanted the mother to take the children with her to the other side and were depressed, due to the reason that they weren’t able to go with her. The mother had to be with the father because he needed help achieving the dream. Going to the other side with the coyote was risky because of the money needed to pay the driver to take his whole family with him. One of the other reason that he didn’t want to risk taking them because it was dangerous to even take the ride to the other side. Smuggling people to the other side wasn’t as easy and the mother was telling that to the children. The aftereffect of this really messed up the children because of the things that were going to happen to …show more content…
She was in track and field and gotten she got a boyfriend and she was the one who went to school. She got herself a job so she could be with her friend better and be a family with her. She was the most successful out of the three, she got accepted to the University of California, Irvine and she got the idea from her professor because she was getting good grades and she did so many things. Her sister was so proud of her and he she was the one who actually did something. She was the one who was trying to get acknowledgement from the father, but the father didn’t want to hear it from her. He was set that she herself would have been a failure like the other two and boy was he wrong. Reyna was the one who because a success and work her whole life to become someone that she could be proud