Hey there, just A+_Student_1997 coming
to you with my first blog post. By the end of this blog I hope to have up a
large variety of multimedia that all relates to the book: Enrique's
Journey by Sonia Nazario. This blog is all about the book and to get
the deeper meaning Nazario had to offer her readers.
Alright, this being my first post I will start with something simple about Enrique's Journey: The Obstacle.
Imagine you're a single parent with two children (one in school and one that will be starting soon) and in a tight bind for money. You are lost and feel out of touch with reality and as if God himself has abandoned you for no good reason. Then a miracle occurs and you hear that there is work outside of your country. This is, as you may look at it, your only option for you and your children to have a way out of poverty. Unfortunately you get the bad news that it will only be possible for you to go and you must leave your two children behind with relatives. As a last resort you agree to leave you children behind for them to have a better life.
Now, flip that and imagine yourself as one of those children. Mother leaves in the morning without even a goodbye. You figure that she just left to go to the market without. Hours pass and she does not return. Hours turns to days, then from days to months. No one seems too concerned about her whereabouts. Then about eight months later, your house gets a call. It is your mother on the other line. She tells you that she loves you very much and that she promises to come home by next Christmas. You ask her where she is, and she answers "America".
For a child in a country such as Honduras, there are some big differences between Honduras and America. For one, the streets are nothing but dirt trails and you often see people and children as young as five selling things like flowers, old clothes and (in the alleys) drugs. For Enrique it was spices at the age of eight.
The obstacle comes in around the your mother calls after she has missed Christmas for the fourth time. You begin to not even believe her when she says that she is coming back and your heart aches because you miss her so much. About ten years later, you have decided that enough is enough and that you will travel to America to see her. This is where Enrique's journey truly begins.
The biggest obstacle that he has to face is not the long distance he must travel, or the fear of being caught by la migra. It is the obstacle of doing this all alone. I feel as though the hardest part of this would be the fact that you have to face this all by yourself. The only thing that can keep you going is will and just when you think you can slow down, a new enemy pops up on the horizon. The big picture obstacle is fear of the unknown. An obstacle that many face.
But we will get into that next blog. Thanks for reading! *^-^*
Alright, this being my first post I will start with something simple about Enrique's Journey: The Obstacle.
Imagine you're a single parent with two children (one in school and one that will be starting soon) and in a tight bind for money. You are lost and feel out of touch with reality and as if God himself has abandoned you for no good reason. Then a miracle occurs and you hear that there is work outside of your country. This is, as you may look at it, your only option for you and your children to have a way out of poverty. Unfortunately you get the bad news that it will only be possible for you to go and you must leave your two children behind with relatives. As a last resort you agree to leave you children behind for them to have a better life.
Now, flip that and imagine yourself as one of those children. Mother leaves in the morning without even a goodbye. You figure that she just left to go to the market without. Hours pass and she does not return. Hours turns to days, then from days to months. No one seems too concerned about her whereabouts. Then about eight months later, your house gets a call. It is your mother on the other line. She tells you that she loves you very much and that she promises to come home by next Christmas. You ask her where she is, and she answers "America".
For a child in a country such as Honduras, there are some big differences between Honduras and America. For one, the streets are nothing but dirt trails and you often see people and children as young as five selling things like flowers, old clothes and (in the alleys) drugs. For Enrique it was spices at the age of eight.
The obstacle comes in around the your mother calls after she has missed Christmas for the fourth time. You begin to not even believe her when she says that she is coming back and your heart aches because you miss her so much. About ten years later, you have decided that enough is enough and that you will travel to America to see her. This is where Enrique's journey truly begins.
The biggest obstacle that he has to face is not the long distance he must travel, or the fear of being caught by la migra. It is the obstacle of doing this all alone. I feel as though the hardest part of this would be the fact that you have to face this all by yourself. The only thing that can keep you going is will and just when you think you can slow down, a new enemy pops up on the horizon. The big picture obstacle is fear of the unknown. An obstacle that many face.
But we will get into that next blog. Thanks for reading! *^-^*
The Journey is just Beginning!
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