People have many different reasons for wanting to undertake a mission. Like in Barrio Boy, it says Ernesto wants to learn how to be a good American, and in ¨Apollo 13¨ it says they want to make it home safely.Both are determined to complete their mission. Ernesto and the astronauts used different methods to reach their goal.So the reasons of their survival is determination.
Ernesto Galarza is determined to learn english and become a good American. In paragraph 13 of Barrio Boy it says “I was soon able to match Ito’s progress as a sentence reader”. This proves that Ernesto is determined to learn english just as well as his friends like Ito. The last sentence of the memoir(paragraph 17), states “becoming a