Hardships Depicted In Enrique's Journey

When reading “Enrique’s Journey”, it makes me realize the hardships that are occurring around the world while everyone living their ideal life is not aware of these destitutions. When Enrique took the risk to plunge into the dangerousness of crossing the border; traveling with unexpected ambushing of gangs and thug, getting caught by corrupted officers, the dangerousness of jumping from or on trains and other hardships that he has dealt with. What I liked was that Enrique knew about the struggles that he will be facing but he didn’t care. His mother was more important than anything else in the world. Even though his mother would send him and his sister American clothes and as well as money, he didn’t want them. he would rather see his mother
I know he says that he doesn’t need all those things and all he wants is just his mother but I feel as if he doesn’t see what she is putting herself through for him. Giving her all these accusation causes his mother, Lourdes, to feel as if what she sent them wasn’t enough to forgive her for leaving them at a young age. She feels as if what she went through, all the hardships were not enough. I feel like this was the message that the author was trying to execute through her book; the farther you are away from family the father you become emotionally. Like his mother, now Enrique is working and sending money to his own family back home. He worked hard to get to America; crossing the border with the dangerous elements that either did happened or would get him killed, jumped, or caught. Now that he is in America, might as well take advantage of it; well that’s how I viewed it. If I had to recommend this book to anyone, I would because I feel like everyone in the world is not aware what its like being an immigrant that just wants to make living and not