Hardships In Enrique's Journey

Hardships: a time when things in someone’s life is hard. Hardships can influence a person’s life by allowing you to grow and to learn from past experiences. In Enrique’s Journey, Enrique’s mother, Lourdes, leaves El Salvador in search for money to send back home, and attempts to make the life long trip to the United States. However, she goes off the grid by not sending money home to her kids in El Salvador, not answering phone calls of returning them, so Enrique decides to make his own journey to the U.S in search of her. He has to take a dangerous route to make it, by swimming rivers that mark the border lines into Mexico containing swift currents, jumping trains to travel faster. He had to swim the same rivers and jump the same trains because