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Does Nazario Use Ethos Pathos Logos In Enrique's Journey

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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

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