Enrique's Journey- The Solution (Fully Explained)

     Hey readers, just A+_Student_1997 here with another blog. I do hope that you enjoyed that gif I made. That was a very rough description of the problem and the solution. Today we are going to go into more detail about the obstacle and how it was over come in Enrique’s Journey.

     Now, as I have stated many times before, Enrique sets out on his great adventure to find his mother. We also know that his mother left to find work in America to pay for his and his sister’s schooling. The biggest motivator for Enrique was that he was so lonely and he missed his mother so much that all he could do is think about her. That is the real problem. Let’s take a look at how the obstacle was overcome and what Enrique’s solution was.

     After years of grief and years of hearing the same lie about coming home for Christmas, Enrique decides to leave Honduras and go to America to find his mother and to be with her. This of course presents the problems of how he going to get there and how he going to hide from the Immigration Agents when he gets out of Honduras. His solution for this obstacle was to hop onto trains and when they get close to a check point (a place where a train stops so they can check for immigrants riding on them) jump off quickly and run into a town nearby. It of course takes many attempts and he didn't even make it to the boarder until his seventh attempt. At this point, crossing a boarder is a very big gamble because if he gets caught on the other side, others will only be deported to Mexico. He will be deported all the way back to Honduras.

     Enrique works as a car washer next to a taco stand and directs cars into spots in the back parking lot. He needs to earn enough money to get phone cards so he can call his family and ask them for his mother’s number. And then he can call his mother and ask her to pay for a smuggler to take him across the border. Eventually he gets enough money and calls his mother. He asks her for $1,200 and to request El Tirindaro (a friend of his that is a part of a smuggling crew). She agrees and in no time he is trekking his way across the Rio Grande (the river that runs in-between Mexico and America).

     Soon he is put into the back of the van and driven to Huston, Texas past a check point. Then he is taken to and old house where he is given new clothes and asked to call his mother for an additional $500 dollars. She transfers the money over and then his mother’s boyfriend drives down and picks up Enrique. At this point he is taken to his mother and they are once again reunited.

     This is a phenomenal tale that is a nice example of how to overcome an obstacle. Next time we will finish the sentence "To overcome the obstacles they faced, all of these individuals…” and the sentence "To be a survivor in life, one must…". See you next time!

Thanks for reading! *^-^*