How To Write An Essay On Enrique's Journey

In the book Enrique's Journey by Sonia Nazario, I have experience ups and downs emotions. So many upsetting scene, disappointments and painful moments. I can relate to this book because I have experienced something similar which it has cause a big impact on me. As a young child Enrique and his sister Belky were left behind in Honduras by their mother Lourdes. Who left to the Unites States to find work and help her children's.They had to survived without Lourdes, and this has lead him to go to El Norte to find their mother. He had hope the one day he will see his mother again.
Throughout this book I have had some connections, and really powerful emotions because I was also left behind in Dominican Republic by my father, who came to the United States. Reading this book I have seen

how Enrique had to survived without his mother and his father, which in the other hand, I had my mother with me but I was still experiencing a loss of someone I loved. This was something the connected with me the most, it wasn’t easy for me to grow up without him and wasn’t easy for me to understand why he left.
Even though, Lourdes wasn’t there for him but he still had people the love him and care about him. Like his grandmother, Maria Marcos who took care of him and Belky when their mother left and his uncle Carlos who watch over him when he was getting in trouble in Honduras.
Enrique also had people who were there for him and took care of him, even though he was experiencing the loss of someone he loves. But I believe that they weren’t enough for him, because he wanted his mother with him. As a young child, Enrique had to sell food with his grandmother in order to cover the expenses at home but he didn’t enjoy the life. As years pass Enrique needed his mother more and more. He was going on wrong path, using drugs, smoking and stealing things from his own family members because he thought that by doing all this he will forget about the loss of his mother. In the book stated "Only his mother can save him. She is his salvation" (page 42). Lourdes has been Enrique quickness, and he decided that it was time to started the journey and look for his mother. In order to find his mother he had to try seven times, getting deported back and start all over again. After wishing, he had his mother with him as a child now that he does started to threaded her mother bad because he blames her for everything he went through as a young child back in Honduras. Enrique said “Money doesn't solve anything” because his mother use to send what she could to him and his sister and he felt this wasn’t enough to remove the pain he felt without having her with him.
Throughout this book there has been a couple of things that I wish I can take away. One of them is, Enrique doing drugs, smoking and taking things from his family members. I felt the this was something I wish I can take away because I felt that he was losing his family members respect, I felt that he was losing everything he ever gain with his family. Another things that I would change is, Enrique uncle Carlos death (even though this was reality) because I feel that Carlos made a big impact on Enrique by giving him his support, giving him a job, giving him someone he could count on. I feel that if Carlos was alive during Enrique's Journey to find his mother he could off help him more than anyone did. One last thing the I would change is, how Enrique treas his mother when he completes he journey and finds her. I feel this was disrespectful because she give him, his life. He has a body because she decided to bring him to the world, without looking at the disadvantage. I feel that this are few things that I would change about this book because I was connection with my own personal experience.
Throughout this book there has been a lot of powerful moments the have stand out to me, one of them is the first time Enrique arrived to the United States, how his mother acted when she saw him. This was one of the moments the most stand out to me because I have experienced something similar. This was something the was the happiest moments of all for me because I saw them together one more time after a long time. I believe that the way this book was written by the author made more an impact because Sonia Nazario add all the detail necessary to understand the feeling and the deep though it has. I have experience really deep emotions with this book because it was really detail, and really informative which I believe made more an impact.
Overall, Sonia Nazario has written one of the best book that I have ever read.

I will recommend this book not just to family members who are more close to me but also a couple of friends and co-workers because this book is all about hope. Having the american dream. I believe that this book will make an impact to everyone that reads it because Enrique is all about hope, survival and family. If I can rate this book I will give it five stars because it was a great book. It was easy book to read, it was really detail and in some cases I felt that I was experiencing the same thing that Enrique was going through as the face the beast of the journey.
In conclusion, Enrique Journey by Sonia Nazario it was a base on a true story. A young name Enrique was left behind by his mother so she can find a job in the United States to send money to her childrens. A young child he suffer and when through ups and downs, all the little boy wanted was to have his mother with him. This has made a big impact on him that it had lead him into the wrong path, drug addict, smoking and more. Enrique had decided to go into a long journey to find his mother, was deported back seven times before he ended his

journey.