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Character Analysis: Enrique
Enrique is motivated to stay in the United States of America because he is reunited with his mother, has better opportunities, and can aid his girlfriend financially. On the other hand, he wants to return to Honduras considering that he has his girlfriend and daughter back home.
“It is as if all of the hurt he felt inside had to come out and now he is ready to move on. She feels the same warmth and love from Enrique as when he first arrived on her doorstep in North Carolina.”(Nazario 235) Enrique and Lourdes have been apart for more than a decade long and he has come to resent her for abandoning him at the age of five. Although they’ve clashed and fought for the same reason various times, he has come realize and understand her actions for
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