Catholic Catechism As Depicted In Enrique's Journey

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1.The Journey, which can include but not limited to the reason(s) for leaving, the outcome, trials and tribulations, In the Journey, Enrique’s mother Lourdes leaves for the U.S. with a smuggler during the largest immigrant wave in U.S. history. She makes her way into Los Angela’s at night through the sewage tunnel. Her plan is to go to Miami but her transport, the smuggler, leaves her at the greyhound station. After hunger and desperation catches up with her after days of waiting for him to return she finally goes and finds a job at the factory earning $14.00 a day. Eventually, Lourdes finds a friend of her brothers who helps her get a counterfeit Social Security card and a job. Working as a live-in nanny she then moves to Beverly Hills and helps take care of a 3-year-old who …show more content…

Role of the church; Jesus, and also his parents being migrants, and also the church is suppose by doctrine protect those who have none or need it the most, The Catholic Catechism instructs the faithful that good government has two duties, both of which must be carried out and neither of which can be ignored. 3. Immigration-the book is neither pro nor anti immigration, and tries to give a fair a balanced story. Do you believe it does or does not, and how? How are Central Americans treated in Mexico?, I believe it is a non-biased view on immigration. Purely because of the various views that are discussed in the book. Enrique is one of the 48,000 Central American and Mexican children who went to the U.S. alone. Many of these young boys and girls are looking for their mothers who have left for El Norte to find work. Central Americans are treated badly. They are not excepted possibly. This is something I am unsure on a 100% because I was unclear on the reasoning. 4. Sonia Nazario herself tackles the journey that Enrique did, on top of the trains. She still had the luxury of staying in a hotel and coming home to the U.S., but do you think that that helped her tell the story

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