Enriques Journey
Michelle Tulej
Period: 2
The Boy and His Journey
Immigration is a very dangerous and risky journey. Everyday immigrants try so hard to make it to the United States. This journey involves parents trying to support kids back home, families trying to start over, or kids trying to get to their mom; but some do not make it through this hardship. Those individuals, who make it, try like never before to support themselves and the family they needed to leave behind. Enrique’s Journey by Sonia Nazario is a well written novel that uses many pathos, logos, and ethos examples. Each one of them is used effectively because of the way students are persuaded in believing there true. Elements from the quotes can reveal that Sonia is knowledgeable and intelligent about the subject therefore the reader will. This book is very interesting in the sense that it includes amazing thoughts and uses a lot of detail about the occurring events. After reading this book people should see that immigration is not the easiest task to get through. With Sonia using ethos, pathos, and logos effectively, the reader gets more of a way to connect with the book and dwell on this topic. In Enrique’s Journey, Sonia Nazario presents ethos, pathos, and logos therefore; Sonia Nazario helps persuades readers to realize the facts, emotion, and logics of immigration.
To begin with, ethos is effective in Enrique’s Journey because the author, Sonia Nazario, provides the readers with knowledge about facts on immigration and events. For example, Nazario explains how kids want to go find their moms and how life is affected by this separation. She states, “Children like Enrique dream of finding their mothers and living happily ever after. Then reality intrudes. The children show resentment because they were left behind.” (Nazario 191). This example shows that the author has knowledge on this topic because she has seen kids try so hard to make it to the United States. She has spoken with Enrique on how troubled
Period: 2
The Boy and His Journey
Immigration is a very dangerous and risky journey. Everyday immigrants try so hard to make it to the United States. This journey involves parents trying to support kids back home, families trying to start over, or kids trying to get to their mom; but some do not make it through this hardship. Those individuals, who make it, try like never before to support themselves and the family they needed to leave behind. Enrique’s Journey by Sonia Nazario is a well written novel that uses many pathos, logos, and ethos examples. Each one of them is used effectively because of the way students are persuaded in believing there true. Elements from the quotes can reveal that Sonia is knowledgeable and intelligent about the subject therefore the reader will. This book is very interesting in the sense that it includes amazing thoughts and uses a lot of detail about the occurring events. After reading this book people should see that immigration is not the easiest task to get through. With Sonia using ethos, pathos, and logos effectively, the reader gets more of a way to connect with the book and dwell on this topic. In Enrique’s Journey, Sonia Nazario presents ethos, pathos, and logos therefore; Sonia Nazario helps persuades readers to realize the facts, emotion, and logics of immigration.
To begin with, ethos is effective in Enrique’s Journey because the author, Sonia Nazario, provides the readers with knowledge about facts on immigration and events. For example, Nazario explains how kids want to go find their moms and how life is affected by this separation. She states, “Children like Enrique dream of finding their mothers and living happily ever after. Then reality intrudes. The children show resentment because they were left behind.” (Nazario 191). This example shows that the author has knowledge on this topic because she has seen kids try so hard to make it to the United States. She has spoken with Enrique on how troubled