In Sonia Nazario’s book, Enrique’s Journey, she presents the issue of migration through the thrilling tale of the journey taken by a Honduran boy, Enrique. Nazario’s central argument focuses on the endless cycle of parents leaving their children, and the children following and the desire for this cycle to stop. She wants the parents to stay in their countries and not break up their families. In order to extensively research the journey Enrique and other child migrants took, Nazario began, “as Enrique did, in Tegucigalpa, Honduras. Using her extensive interviews with him as her map, she retraces his steps, telling the story as though she had sat beside him on each step of his journey,” (Wildman). These steps fueled Nazario’s argument as she …show more content…
Nazario is able to create an, “anthropology of the peripatetic youth bent on braving the obstacles that stand between their home villages and the North American cities where their mothers moved in search of jobs, money and the chance to better their family's lives back home” (Wildman). Nazario’s use of logos includes listing statistics and facts she has researched or experienced first hand in order to back up and build her argument. In Enrique’s Journey, Nazario is able to describe the extent of the harsh environment as the danger for migrants does not end with just bandits or gangs, but, “sometimes, a madrina rides the train and pretends to be a migrant,” so that they can, “[radio] ahead to report how many migrants are aboard and where they are hidden so agents will know which cars to target when [the migration agents] stop the train,” (Nazario 74-75). She tells the readers that when migrants are confronted by bandits “migrants who resist are beaten or killed” (Nazario 76). She supports her argument of the hardships of migrants through the, “Red Cross workers,” who, “retrieve, on average, ten migrants per month who have fallen or been beaten up by bandits or gangsters” (Nazario 57). This includes people like the, “seventeen-year-old Honduran [who] lost both legs,” and the, “two Salvadoran youths [who] were
Enrique’s journey from Honduras to the U.S. unveils the innate loyalty of a loving child to their mother and presents the dangers that a migrant faces on the road with consistent angst; nevertheless, it supports the idea that compassion shown by some strangers can boost the retreating confidence within a person. In Sonia Nazario’s “Enrique’s Journey,” he seeks the beacon of light that all migrants hope to encounter; “El Norte.” Like many children before him, it is the answer to the problems of a hard life. While being hunted down “like animals” leading to “seven futile attempts,” he is
Enrique’s Journey written by Sonia Nazario is a work of non-fiction that follows the journey of a young Central American boy to find his mother Lourdes, who left him at the age of five. Before Nazario introduces Enrique she discusses the experiences she put herself through to gain a better understanding of the travels a migrant child and adult go through in their conquest to make it to the United States. While going through the trials that many migrants put themselves through Nazario learns the stories of different migrants and begins her search for a migrant child to bring attention to their story and create awareness about the situation children migrating are enduring to find their mothers in the United States. Nazario traces Enrique’s steps to experience his full journey and to describe the details in depth upon writing about the journey Enrique took to find his mother in the United States.
In the book Juiced by Jose Canseco, he used steroids while he was playing baseball. This book is mainly about Jose wanting to convince me about him becoming a better athlete by using steroids. Jose Canseco uses Aristotle’s modes of persuasion to convince me in logos, pathos and he doesn’t convince me that he used ethos. According to aristotle ethos is appealing to a given audience's sense of ethics. Logos appeals the audience’s sense of logic and reason and pathos deals with the sense of compassion.
In the novel Enrique’s Journey, Sonia Nazario demonstrates the onerous journey of illegal immigrants. Sonia Nazario aims for the readers to make them understand what most of the immigrants go through during their journey to the United States. By appealing to ethos and pathos throughout the book, Sonia Nazario portrays the path that Enrique undergoes to reunite with his mother.
In “window to save worlds coral reefs rapidly closing.” Michael Greshko targets a environmentalist audience to explain that coral bleaching is one of the many effects of climate change. Which can only be stopped by limiting our emissions and using cleaner energy. Greshko was effective in getting his message across using ethos, pathos and logos. He mainly uses logos but still uses pathos and ethos enough to get his point across.
Many immigrants want human right like other but they still don’t give respect.In Sonia Nazario’s Enrique's Journey. Enrique face many challenges to get to the United States. Enrique and Lourdes’ challenges illustrate the undocumented people don’t have same human right
Each year, thousands of Central American immigrants embark on a dangerous journey from Mexico to the United States. Many of these migrants include young children searching for their mothers who abandoned them. In Enrique’s Journey, former Los Angeles Times reporter, Sonia Nazario, recounts the compelling story of Enrique, a young Honduran boy desperate to reunite with his mother. Thanks to her thorough reporting, Nazario gives readers a vivid and detailed account of the hardships faced by these migrant children.
Immigration is a complex and multifaceted issue that faces the US. In his film, Sin Nombre (2009), director Cary Fukunaga aims to juxtaposition the issue of immigration with the issue of gang violence in Mexico, and show the difficulties immigrants face by giving his audience an insider’s perspective into the experience of immigrating to the United States from Honduras. He does this through a variety of characters; most notably Willie and Sayra. Fukunaga did extensive research on life in the Mara Salvatrucha gang and the process of immigrating to America, in order to make his film realistic and authentic. The result is a movie that not only shows immigration in a way that evokes empathy and enforces the humanity of immigrants in the viewer’s mind, but also gives the viewer a look into the realities of being in a gang. Through the use of strong characters, powerful dialogue and vivid imagery, Fukunaga uses pathos to put a human face to the issue of immigration, logos to inform and give his audience context about the issues the film addresses, and ethos to establish his credibility and make the film believable.
Although his research is not fully based in the Mexican immigrants, it is rather based in a small community of immigrants from Tucuani, this is a work that helps people to understand the transnational life of migrants in general. In fact, being an international student and coming from a country market by immigration, this book also provides an explanation of some for some of my personal experience. For example, when he notices how the first generation and second generation is treated differently when returning home. The first generation is well received and praised when the second generation is treated as arrogant. My country was also greatly impacted by civil war which forced a number of people to immigrate. This book analysis presented several explanations for the reason why first generation keeps the image of their country of origin as “home” that they would always come back and the second not so much. Like Julia, many second generation returning to my country feel happy to return home, but they make people unhappy since they would not let go of the values they learned growing up in a foreign country. I didn’t understand much and I confess that before moving to the US I also consider many of them arrogant. In fact, these views may influence how both generations are treated when returning to their home
Reading Enrique’s Journey emphasized the crime and the need of basic necessities of people in Latin America Countries. The author Sonia Nazario, describes his families’ story and how he struggled to make it to the U.S. People for different reasons make the journey to travel to the U.S. It ranges from finding a love one to wanting a better life. While doing so everyone who dares to go on the journey have different experiences. Men and woman have the hardest journey physically compared to children. They go through many obstacles and sometimes not even make it to the other side. They face many dangers such as
When the term “metaphor” is used, one solely thinks of the typical definition; a figure of speech that compares two objects without using the words like or as. However, in Sonia Nazario’s literary work, Enrique’s Journey, word “metaphor” is transformed entirely into a profound and heart wrenching meaning. Throughout this novel the main character, Enrique, stands as a metaphor and a worldwide symbol to show the ongoing problems in the world regarding abandonment, immigration, and drug cartels. Abandoned children long to find their place in the world, and as they try to overcome the barriers they are faced with such as confusion as a result of a failure to be noticed.
I never expected Enrique’s Journey to be such a personal work. Being a journalistic book, I expected a lot of research in it, but not to the level Nazario’s gone to. Definitely, the way she introduced herself into the enduring situations that migrants go through when they try to reach the US gave me a new perspective of what to expect from the book. She comes from a migrant family too, so she can sort of relate to the characters in the book. However, as she confesses herself, her journey was nowhere as arduous as what these children go through to find their mothers. And the way in which she involved herself into the situation increases her empathy for Enrique en other numberless children.
Writers use pathos, ethos, and logos in their writing to appeal to their audience. Pathos is an appeal to emotions, ethos is an appeal to trust, and logos is an appeal to reasoning or logic. Frederick Douglass's, " What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?" is about his views and the views of many slaves towards the Fourth of July. He uses ethos, pathos, and logos effectively to convey his central message.
and Mexican governments and awareness campaigns carried out between 2013-2014 successfully sent the message to residents of the primary sending countries in Central America. However, Central American men, women and children continue to travel north into the migrant trail and across Mexico. The analysis of The Beast Riding the Rails and Dodging Narcos on the Migrant Trail by Oscar Martinez offers concrete, systematic evidence of the relative weight crime victimization plays in the migration decision. The Beast allows us to understand why these individuals continue to make the trip when seemingly fully aware o the dangers involved and supports to suggest that no matter what the dangers of migration may be in the future it is preferably to a present-day life of crime and violence endured in the Northern Triangle. Having such knowledge of what motivates Central Americans to consider migration and understanding the influence of this prior knowledge in their decision for immigration along with an understanding of how preceding U.S. and Mexican efforts to deter immigration grants the United States government to understand immigration patterns and a possible solution for mass migration crisis. The current migration dilemma and book proposes the possibility of a different attempt on behalf of the United States government to deter migration from the Northern
Enrique’s Journey focuses and sheds more light and understanding on the aspects and challenges of extreme poverty, family abandonment, systematic issues of an immigration system and what one has to go through in the face of adversity. The book centers on Enrique who starts out as a young boy living in extreme poverty in Honduras with his family. Enrique is an older adolescent, Hispanic, poverty economic status, unemployed most times, and is in a relationship with one child. This case study will further look at Enrique’s personal experiences from a young child up to young adulthood and how that has shaped his development has a person from coming from such difficult environmental circumstances. This will also look at the different environmental perspectives in the micro, mezzo and macro level when pertaining to effects on human behavior.