Essay On Enrique's Journey
businesses that do not have headquarters in any part of the global south, just the global north which would be the countries listed above. Due to Honduras being in the global south the amount of jobs offered are slim and the pay is even less. Lourdes knows the difference between the United States and Honduras and realizes that Tegucigalpa is not beneficial for her family anymore. “The availability of cheap labour, resources, and favourable production conditions in the global south has enhanced corporate mobility and profitability” (Steger, 50). The owners knowing this will be able to make a higher profit because they do not have to pay their workers as much. As Lourdes leaves, Enrique is forced to move to a place that is even worse than he
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could ever imagine. Enrique’s father and he live with his grandmother in “a shack in Carrizal, one of Tegucigalpa’s poorest neighborhoods” (Nazario, 11). Only Enrique can take his money and spend it on food for himself, and because of Lourdes giving him money he did not have enough for everyone. An average American needs to know that the living conditions Enrique and his family were apart of are not appropriate. There is a type of justice that would explain that an average American and Enrique both deserve an equal life. “Distributive justice is a concept that addresses the ownership of goods in a society… It assumes that there is a large amount of fairness in the distribution of goods” (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, 1). Distributive justice is an equal distribution of goods and services. An average American needs to know that Enrique was not able to have the same goods and services a regular child growing up in America had. Enrique’s neighborhood is not like most American neighborhoods it is very rundown and not safe. Most Americans may not have thought that they could grow up like that or in conditions where they go without eating food. With a neighborhood like Enrique’s, the thought of being able to go to school or own his own house are only a figment of his imagination. The only way he will be able to achieve that thought is venturing out to go find his mom in the United States. The journey north for Enrique all started with a depressed state of his mother leaving. All Enrique wants is to be reunited with someone who once took care of him and nurtured for him. Enrique’s journey is more of a heroic journey then a regretful one. Khadduri explains “….That men are capable of determining their individual or collective interests and know what which they may need or to which they may aspire; they therefore can, individually or collectively, establish a public order under which a certain scale or scales of justice are likely to evolve by tacit agreement or by formal action” (1). This is known as positive or divine justice. This type of justice is being portrayed in Enrique’s Journey because he is deciphering what is best for himself and that would mean traveling north.
As Enrique’s journey begins he knows that it will not be easy and it will be a long ride.
He has tried multiple times to make it to his mother on his six time he was caught and deported as well as his seventh time. His eighth time around was a long journey nonetheless. Enrique had started out knowing what different types of obstacles he would endure. There were bandits and police that either arrested you or stripped you of your belongings. Enrique’s job was to get on the trains to get him to the right place. Enrique would see horrible things on the trains like migrants that do not have some limbs anymore because of hopping on and off. Enrique went through Mexico City and Chiapas which were bad towns. They all have many different types of punishments when going into these towns. There is one town Enrique and many migrants took fond of. Vera Cruz was a friendly giving town. No matter how little the people of the town had they still packed up bags and made food for the migrants traveling. This gave Enrique hope to keep pushing on. Even though the punishments to help the migrants were strong the churches and priests still wanted to contribute. “Those on the margins, people who stand at the edges of communities in need of care that they often do not receive because they are so easily overlooked” (Foster). The church had disobeyed this. The migrants did not directly ask for anything but the people of the church wanted to help anyways even though cops did not approve of their
choices.
could ever imagine. Enrique’s father and he live with his grandmother in “a shack in Carrizal, one of Tegucigalpa’s poorest neighborhoods” (Nazario, 11). Only Enrique can take his money and spend it on food for himself, and because of Lourdes giving him money he did not have enough for everyone. An average American needs to know that the living conditions Enrique and his family were apart of are not appropriate. There is a type of justice that would explain that an average American and Enrique both deserve an equal life. “Distributive justice is a concept that addresses the ownership of goods in a society… It assumes that there is a large amount of fairness in the distribution of goods” (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, 1). Distributive justice is an equal distribution of goods and services. An average American needs to know that Enrique was not able to have the same goods and services a regular child growing up in America had. Enrique’s neighborhood is not like most American neighborhoods it is very rundown and not safe. Most Americans may not have thought that they could grow up like that or in conditions where they go without eating food. With a neighborhood like Enrique’s, the thought of being able to go to school or own his own house are only a figment of his imagination. The only way he will be able to achieve that thought is venturing out to go find his mom in the United States. The journey north for Enrique all started with a depressed state of his mother leaving. All Enrique wants is to be reunited with someone who once took care of him and nurtured for him. Enrique’s journey is more of a heroic journey then a regretful one. Khadduri explains “….That men are capable of determining their individual or collective interests and know what which they may need or to which they may aspire; they therefore can, individually or collectively, establish a public order under which a certain scale or scales of justice are likely to evolve by tacit agreement or by formal action” (1). This is known as positive or divine justice. This type of justice is being portrayed in Enrique’s Journey because he is deciphering what is best for himself and that would mean traveling north.
As Enrique’s journey begins he knows that it will not be easy and it will be a long ride.
He has tried multiple times to make it to his mother on his six time he was caught and deported as well as his seventh time. His eighth time around was a long journey nonetheless. Enrique had started out knowing what different types of obstacles he would endure. There were bandits and police that either arrested you or stripped you of your belongings. Enrique’s job was to get on the trains to get him to the right place. Enrique would see horrible things on the trains like migrants that do not have some limbs anymore because of hopping on and off. Enrique went through Mexico City and Chiapas which were bad towns. They all have many different types of punishments when going into these towns. There is one town Enrique and many migrants took fond of. Vera Cruz was a friendly giving town. No matter how little the people of the town had they still packed up bags and made food for the migrants traveling. This gave Enrique hope to keep pushing on. Even though the punishments to help the migrants were strong the churches and priests still wanted to contribute. “Those on the margins, people who stand at the edges of communities in need of care that they often do not receive because they are so easily overlooked” (Foster). The church had disobeyed this. The migrants did not directly ask for anything but the people of the church wanted to help anyways even though cops did not approve of their
choices.