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1. “She kneels and kisses Belky and hugs her tightly… But Lourdes cannot face Enrique… His mother steps off the porch. She walks away. ’¿Dónde está mi mami?’ Enrique cries, over and over. ‘Where is my mom?’ His mother never returns, and that decides Enrique’s fate.”…
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In the book Enrique’s Journey written by Sonia Nazario, a projects reporter for the Los Angeles Times, Nazario discusses the true story of a man named Enrique born in Honduras who was abandoned at 5 years old by his mother Lourdes. Lourdes chose to leave Enrique and his sister Belky to travel to the United States as an immigrant for better financial opportunities to provide for her children back home. After 11 years of depression and substance abuse, Enrique becomes determined to go the U.S in search of the mother who abandoned him…
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Enrique and Lourdes have different perspectives and objectives in this story. Lourdes feels she has to make a difficult decision of either being with her children and watching them grow up while suffering with poverty, or migrating to America, far from her children, and making a decent amount of money for her children and their future possibly could be brighter than hers. She keeps a long-term and bigger objective in mind, however when she does so, she underestimates the consequences of these actions at that time. Enrique has different objectives in his mind. In many ways, he is shortsighted, yet in a different way from his mother.…
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