Maria Isabella’s wish came true as she prayed for Enrique to come back home. The undocumented migrants are taken to El Corralón detention
Lourdes,Enrique's mother decided to move to the United States from Honduras in order to support her two children financially. She hoped to get enough income to take her children to good schools and be able to provide for their basic needs.she also hoped they could live a better lifestyle than she did. Enrique was too young to understand that Lourdes left and that she was not planning to come back soon,Although the family knew about it,they were not able to explain to Enrique. He was cared for by different relatives and he finally ends up with his paternal grandmother,He starts to sell food to meet the family expenses. Due to frustrations and anger towards his mother,he turns to drugs and he ends up being kicked out because his grandmother could not stand his behavior.
She does this by being very detailed in her documentation of Enrique’s journey which allows the audience to see the more trivial things that end up building to the extreme situation that Enrique was eventually thrown into. The smaller ordeals that Nazario cites portrays Enrique’s life in a more relatable way in which others can see the positive and negative effects that family relationships can have in the coming of age process. Through this relatability, the audience is able to establish a connection with Enrique’s life which allows Nazario to emphasize how family relationships can have both positive and negative effects on someone during the coming of age period. Nazario makes this connection when she documents Belky stating, “On Mother’s Day, Belky cries quietly, alone in her room. She struggles through the celebrations at school.
Throughout the book “The Bean Trees” by Barbara Kingsolver, there are many examples of nontraditional families. Your traditional nuclear family would consist of a father, mother, a child maybe two. You do not see that in “The Bean Trees”. One example of a nontraditional family would be before Taylor and her mother Alice before Taylor left Kentucky. Then another nontraditional family would be Estevan and Esperanza.
Yet, Enrique does not know why she’s left. Not making anything better, his family doesn’t give him straight answers. While Enrique is switched around through different families his sister is well cared for by their aunt. Enrique is forced to sell food as a child to help pay for family expenses. He lived with his grandmother for most of his childhood.
To recap, no one really understood Enrique with his drug problem, so he decides to go to his mother to help him stop his bad habits. This implies that only a mother’s love is the only thing that can help a broken child. The effect of Enrique going to see his mother is that perhaps, he will stop his drug addiction and actually
Aside from all of the hardships he and his mother went through in such a short period of time, he still does not want to leave her. Enrique claimed
Alejandro begged her to not send him back and let him free. She felt pity for the young child and didn’t tell the orphanage about his departure, but also didn’t let him go. She brought him home with him. Marylynn made him feel like home, she even gave him an nickname. Alec, and he stuck with it ever
Mariela’s parents did not want her to leave the family to go work even though her family needed the money. Because her family didn’t have enough money to sway Mariela into staying she moved in with her aunt and began work as a live-in domestic worker. Part of the money Mariela made working was sent back to her family to support them financially. Because Mariela’s brother, Eduardo, got a job and was able to support their family with his work, Mariela moved back home. When Mariela moved to Cancun to work as a live-out domestic servant, she was able to convince her parents to let her stay.
My understanding of New York City has vastly changed after reading the story, There’s is No Jose Here. For me, New York City has been a place known for its order and development internationally. However, the book unveils several things that has changed my understanding of New York City based on the real life experiences of the immigrants like Enrique. One of the very outstanding characteristics of New York City brought out in the story, is the high cost of living.
The overemphasized reunion they both hoped for soon is crushed by actuality. Enrique imagined that if he found his mother, all his problems would vanish. Lourdes expects reverence for the sacrifices she had made for her family, but is greeted with only bitterness and sporadic malice. Enrique returns to his drug use for coping with his utter disappointment.
Making her way through the kitchen over to the family room area, Myrna calmly sits down on the couch and folds her hands into her lap. We sit down across from each other on her leather sofa, and she waits patiently for the interview to begin. With a passion in her eyes, a thick Nicaraguan accent, and a heartfelt tone she begins to tell me about her childhood in Nicaragua. “It was awesome,” she exclaims “I loved it, I loved my childhood, I think I have great memories of my childhood,” she was smiling, and recalling her days in Nicaragua. She enjoyed many things in Nicaragua, her friends, her all girls Catholic school, “and everything about it,” she was expressing.
It was true that she had nothing left in Santo Domingo. Her relationship was full of lies,
Children of undocumented immigrants blame their parents for their departure. Enrique having no parental guidance led him to sniffing glue and joining a gang on his journey to the United States. Also, they claim that it changes their behavior towards their parents. Children of undocumented immigrants feel hostile towards their parents for not taking them to the United States. Years of separation for parents and children damaged their relationship.
Quotes My Response p. 181 “They file through eight locked metal doors to arrive at the E pod, where immigrant children as young as twelve are held. They are housed, at times, in the same pod with accused rapists and other felons.” 1 How is that possible?
