Enrique’s Journey by Sonia Nazario is about a little boy, Enrique, who lived in Honduras. His mother, Lourdes, moved to America to make money for her family because she wasn’t making enough in Honduras to put food on the table for her family. She had 2 kids, Enrique and Belky. After years of many promises broken and very brief conversations between each other, Enrique decided that he was going to try his hardest to make it to America to see his mother. Drugs were his way of rebellion because he was tired of moving in and out with all sorts of family members. He went through many challenges on the way to America including the risks of the trains, brutal gangs and police, and the struggle of leaving his other family in Honduras with terrible …show more content…
He had his grandparents, his girlfriend, and his own kid that he was leaving. They were hardly making enough to live on their own. His grandmother was so desperate that she allowed Enrique to live with them only on one condition, if he sells food and prices in order to contribute to family expenses. He rebels against his grandmother by using drugs. I think his mother had a huge part in his rebellion. If it weren’t for her moving away, he wouldn’t have to deal with the rotation of houses and the stress of getting mistreated. Enrique didn’t grow up with his father being there for him. I believe that kids that aren’t able to have their parents influence on them in their early childhood tend to be rebellious. This is their way of exploring and finding out what is right and wrong because they didn’t have parents to tell them right from wrong. Many children in other countries have to live without their parents because their parents are in the U.S. sending them money for food. This kind of stuff is happening every day, but we just don’t hear about it. When I think about this, it makes me appreciate my life a lot more, and it makes me think twice about how lucky I