In her article “Rise of the Coyote: The New Top Dog,” Sharon Levy describes that coyotes need to stop being criticized as static entities and know that they are evolving rapidly. Coyotes have helped researchers understand how other mid-sized predators respond when larger carnivores are wiped out. The larger animals that are prey make the smaller animals feel that they secure in their habitat because the wild animal that could kill them, has something that could kill the predator. Coyotes have been helpful in discovering the smaller animals reactions, helping people show that not all wild animals are as harmful as they seem to be. Levy goes on to say that coyotes are interbreeding with dogs, leading to a different sort of hybrid animal.…
Enrique bounces around from Guatemala, to Mexico, as he is determined to be with his mother. I think the author wrote this book to show the struggles that are really happening in Central America. This book is non-fiction, and thus the horrid stories of gang beatings, corrupt cops, drug addiction, and violence are all very real, and influential. The book also puts American…
In the book Enrique’s Journey written by Sonia Nazario, a projects reporter for the Los Angeles Times, Nazario discusses the true story of a man named Enrique born in Honduras who was abandoned at 5 years old by his mother Lourdes. Lourdes chose to leave Enrique and his sister Belky to travel to the United States as an immigrant for better financial opportunities to provide for her children back home. After 11 years of depression and substance abuse, Enrique becomes determined to go the U.S in search of the mother who abandoned him…
Esperanza’s rich and loving father was murdered by bandits. Esperanza and what is left of her family are threaten by her dad’s wicked stepbrothers that may have had a hand in his death. In order to get away from their evil grasp they ran to the US of A. Working as plantation workers with their servants. Amidst all this she had to leave behind her grandma due to injuries probably caused by her wicked stepsons. Also like Esperanza Diego de la Vega’s family was taken away from him, his daughter stolen, wife murdered, and sent to a Mexican equivalent of Guantanamo Bay to plot his revenge.…
When the man started his journey to come across to America, he was taken to an old, run down, dark house. When Hector arrived at the house another man (Miguel) was already there waiting to be hustled across the border. They would spend several days and nights together in the house not knowing what was to come next. They had to go with limited food and drink for days. Then one night the coyote came and took the two men to a warehouse, there at the warehouse were many men. Eventually all the men were loaded into a hole that had been cut out of the bottom of a truck. After all the men had been loaded into the hole it was welded back shut. After hours of riding in a closed, cramped space that smelled of urine and vomit, Hector was losing hope of ever making it out of the truck. Finally, the truck came to a stop, the hole was reopened, and the men were “hustled” out of the truck into a second warehouse (25). From the second warehouse all the men was took into a office where they was given an new identification card, the start of their new life as an “illegal American” (26). Hector went to South Carolina with Miguel the man he met in the old house, they waited on a bench for Miguel’s cousin Pablo to come and pick them up. Finally Pablo arrived and they started their journey to South Carolina where Pablo’s lives and works. The farmer that Pablo worked for also gave Miguel a job. Pablo’s boss called his neighbor to…
Enrique’s journey has taken him over 7 years to find his mother. Throughout his journey Enrique runs into trouble with authorities that take all his money and belongings, as well as thief’s who try to steal from migrants. Enrique cannot find trust in anyone because even if the authorities are robbing migrants, then they can’t be trusted. This government issue is hanging on a thread while, the government is not doing anything to help the migrants find their place in the world. When Enrique is 5 years old, his mother Lourdes moves to America to find a job to send back home to her home town of Mexico so that Enrique is able to go to school, and eat better food. As he gets older, he starts to beg for his mother to come back and feels lonely without her presence. He sets off on his Journey towards America to find his mother, and in the process runs into trouble with the authorities as well as muggers who take migrant’s belonging for themselves. His journey to find his mother is a test of his will power, faith, luck, and persistency to continue to his goal. With gritty determination and will to be by this mother’s side, he continues his journey despite of him failing many times to cross the border to find his mother. Enrique’s Journey by Sonia Nazario represents the dedication, and persistence of a young boy longing to find his mother across the border of Mexico to the United States of America, as well as the obscured rugged government control over migrants, its use of real life examples give the readers an idea of how life is for migrants crossing the border to start their new life.…
When reading “Enrique’s Journey”, it makes me realize the hardships that are occurring around the world while everyone living their ideal life is not aware of these destitutions. When Enrique took the risk to plunge into the dangerousness of crossing the border; traveling with unexpected ambushing of gangs and thug, getting caught by corrupted officers, the dangerousness of jumping from or on trains and other hardships that he has dealt with. What I liked was that Enrique knew about the struggles that he will be facing but he didn’t care. His mother was more important than anything else in the world. Even though his mother would send him and his sister American clothes and as well as money, he didn’t want them. he would rather see his mother…
Soon, Enrique crosses Rio Grande with El Trinadaro’s assistance, escaping INS officers.he travelled hundreds of miles in a car with other immigrants towards Dallas, Texas; he admired the beauty of the U.S cities.Moreover, he experienced tears of exhilaration at the thought of seeing his mother again. For Enrique, the most anticipated moment of his life became reality; after several years, he met his mother in the United States. Lourdes and Enrique embraced and professed their love to each…
In the book, El Otro Lado by Julia Alvarez, describes the author’s experience of leaving the dominican republic and moving to the united states. This is more than just her moving though, it’s about her transition through things like her culture, her behavior, her personality and her childhood into a world of emotions filled with insecurity, love, hurt. Alvarez’s use of Spanish that is mixed into the English she writes her poems also describe stories of her life along with the struggle of emigrating to a new country and what it’s like living in a country that isn’t 1st world or most advanced, revealing feelings from situations that most immigrants face coming to the United States. Alvarez also reveals her own personal…
El Norte, a 1983 film directed by Gregory Nava, depicts the life of two indigenous teenagers who flee their native country, Guatemala, in search for a better life in America. The reason for fleeing is due to the ethnic and political oppression of the Guatemalan Civil War. The film builds up a strong connection shared between Enrique and Rosa, one of genuine feeling and fierce emotion. This connection is foregrounded by the exaggerated style and is often compared to adulterated relations among Hispanics. Such a differentiation is proposed to underline the strain on the social connection created by the financial aspects of migration. In both Enrique’s and Rosa’s hopes of pursuing the “American Dream”, their fantasies of a better life are both…
Laura, a Mexican immigrant and student in Rose’s remedial English class, has a completely different frame of reference than California born UCLA students she finds herself in class with. She remembers in detail how her father made a meager living as a “food vendor” in Tijuana. The types of food, the smells and the other items he sold are cannot be forgotten by Laura. She emigrated, with her parents, to the United States at the age of six (Rose 1). These memories keep her connected to Mexico.…
“This connection we have isn’t going away, it’s only getting stronger. Because the more I spend time with her, the closer I want to be” (Elkeles 133). Alex Fuentes, the “Latino Blood” gang member who everyone in the school is afraid of. Brittany Ellis, the head cheerleader with the perfect relationship and the perfect life. When Brittany and Alex get paired up in chemistry class, their connection becomes close. Brittany realizes that Alex’s identity isn’t really what everyone says. Will love make Brittany and Alex’s reputation collapse?…
Through Juana’s story, Reyna, impersonates the journey and struggles that many people have to endure to get to the United States so they can have a better life for them and their families. Juana’s main motivation to cross over to the other side is to find her father that “abandoned” her and her mother when she was still a little girl, but she is also driven by harsh living conditions, oppression by a corrupt government, and hunger. Throughout her youth in Mexico Juana encounters many problems, both emotional and physical and these later encourage her to look for a better life in the United States. When she is twelve she is left in charge taking care of her baby sister in a flooded house while her mother goes out and looks for her father who still hasn’t returned from work. The next day as her father wakes her, she sees that her sister is missing and the baby is found drowned in the depths of the water of her flooded house. Juana has to deal with the guilt of her sister’s death, causing her great emotional and physical pain. As if things were not bad enough, this is not the only thing that Juana has to endure throughout her youth. After her sister’s death, her father leaves for “el otro lado” in search of work, leaving behind the debt of her sister’s funeral. No money…
In the text ‘Coyote and Wasichu’ it talks about how some people are too naive and gullible that they overestimate their strengths. During the text, the Wasichu believed that the coyote required so many of his belongings to retrieve a cheating medicine that he didn't realise that he was being fooled. In his mindset, he believed that he was better than everyone else and thought that he’d be able to fool the coyote.…
Sounds of familiar voices dying and deafening causes me to wipe the crisp sweat off my forehead. Though I must act on my gut and escape to a place where half the town isn’t after my family’s head. Pedro, my trusty childhood friend is on the same page as me and is desperately trying not to crack under the pressure than is pushing down upon us. Both of our families are heavily involved in drugs and gangs, specifically our fathers, and after we heard Donald Trump won the election against Hillary Clinton; we took in his words and tried to attempt an escape from this hell before a wall is built. I feel my hands for my antique ring that has been passed down my family, I’m not going to be the one to break the chains. If I’m going to die early in Mexico,…