Enrique's Journey Chapter Summaries

In chapters 7 and 8 in Enrique’s Journey, Enrique has finally made it to America. He is now living in the same house as his mother and has found a job in North Carolina. During this chapter I also found a few more key points that made me start to think about different aspect about coming to a new country. The first key point in the chapters with Enrique and his mother dealing with their kind of rocky relationship. Their relations begins well and then it begins to go up and down, almost like a rollercoaster. I know that Enrique is so excited to finally see his mother, but I would assume that there is a ton of resentment built up from the many years with out her. He was forced to grow up with out her and I think that it is personally fine for his to have at least a little resentment for her leaving him. Although I also see his mother’s side of this as well. She left to make sure she had a better life and thought this would help his life. She feels she made the right decision, and at the time she probably did, but she did leave her son. He needed her and now when he has finally found her, she
I know that this was the hardest decision she probably ever had to make. She was so in love with her daughter, and they had such a close bond, I have no idea how she was able to leave her behind. If I were her, I think I would had have to come up with a way, so both my daughter and I could travel to America. Honestly, I would have tried to find a legal way, so my daughter and I would have a safer life in a country legally. Now I know that in the lower income countries, it is harder to come to America legally, but I know it can be done. I would have rather had safety and be able to live in America as an American one day, so my daughter could have a better life, and my grandchildren and great grandchildren, can continue to have a wonderful life in