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The Immigrant In Sonia Nazario´s Enrique's Journey

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In Sonia Nazario’s Enrique’s Journey, readers are able to view the undeserved hardships migrants, such as Enrique, undergo, all in search of one thing, freedom. Enrique is a 17 year old Honduran boy, whom was left lonesome when his mother decided to take on a dreadful journey to better her family. After many years without his mom, Enrique goes on a perilous mission in order to reunite with his mother, Lourdes. This expedition involved extremely challenging and life threatening missions, which many migrants face daily. Once they arrive to the United States they realize that leaving their culture and families behind was all for a hostile country in which survival is not definite. Little did they know that living in the U.S would not be stable …show more content…

Upon Lourdes’s arrival, her first job experience in America consisted of a prideful woman who humiliated her obligating her to “scrub her living room and kitchen floors on her knees” (Nazario 15). This demonstrates how Americans oppress the migrants, tormenting them without thinking twice about what they have gone through. Although some Americans are somewhat accepting of migrants, others would accept them into their homes just to tortue them and oblige them to do challenging jobs, which can cause health problems. As the migrants spent more time in the U.S without being deported, the Americans started discriminating much more. For example, Enrique’s aunt Mirian explains the sufferings she faced in her jobs receiving less income although having a harder duty to do (Nazario 244). For migrants, living in the United States meant having to drop their pride to partake in difficult jobs and not earning their deserved profits due to their race. In order to receive sufficient income to maintain themselves financially, just enough to keep food in their plate, migrants are willing to work in any possible job. This clearly proves how the migrants are victims of

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