Never Cross Alone Nazario Analysis
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H English 11B
4/10/13
Never Cross Alone Sonia Nazario who was a journalist found out about Enrique and wanted to find more about it and retraced his steps from his journey to America and wrote about it. About 5,000 teens and kid every 6 months cross the border alone, coming from countries like Guatemala, El Salvador, and Honduras. Enrique relates to most kids right now because kids and teens his age are try to cross the border alone to go live a better life or to go live with a family member that they were separated when they were young. Sonia Nazario disagrees that young migrants under 18 should cross the border. They will not find a job because it’s rare that teenagers get jobs and harder when they cant speak English. …show more content…
In 2008, about 8,000 were apprehended at the border; last year there were nearly 24,500, mostly coming from Mexico, El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras.” The numbers immigration crossing the border are still high but not as high when Nazario when she published the book “Enrique’s Journey.” In a book review a the writer says “For example, Nazario reports that in 2001, an estimated 48,000 children from Central America and Mexico entered the U.S. without their parents and without legal authorization” (p. 265). This shows the rate of how …show more content…
The way she uses her statistics and how her cause and effect argument is how Lourdes leaves Enrique as a child and then he grows up and goes looking for her leaving his unborn child in Honduras. This is all a cycle of immigrants having to look for lost parents and crossing the border alone to find their parents, and then staying here in the United States and living here illegally. In addition, her detailed way of describing every moment of this book like how Lourdes acts after not seeing Enrique for 11 years because she left him behind in Honduras. How she would try to take care of him like if he were the same five year old she left behind in Honduras and how Enrique angers against her for not being there and now Lourdes wants to be a mother to him. Sonia Nazario says, “For months I traveled in Enrique’s footsteps, I lived with the near-constant danger of being beaten, robbed, or raped” (xxi). The author going on the journey that many Central Americans take every day to arrive in the United States emphasizes the story of “Enrique’s
H English 11B
4/10/13
Never Cross Alone Sonia Nazario who was a journalist found out about Enrique and wanted to find more about it and retraced his steps from his journey to America and wrote about it. About 5,000 teens and kid every 6 months cross the border alone, coming from countries like Guatemala, El Salvador, and Honduras. Enrique relates to most kids right now because kids and teens his age are try to cross the border alone to go live a better life or to go live with a family member that they were separated when they were young. Sonia Nazario disagrees that young migrants under 18 should cross the border. They will not find a job because it’s rare that teenagers get jobs and harder when they cant speak English. …show more content…
In 2008, about 8,000 were apprehended at the border; last year there were nearly 24,500, mostly coming from Mexico, El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras.” The numbers immigration crossing the border are still high but not as high when Nazario when she published the book “Enrique’s Journey.” In a book review a the writer says “For example, Nazario reports that in 2001, an estimated 48,000 children from Central America and Mexico entered the U.S. without their parents and without legal authorization” (p. 265). This shows the rate of how …show more content…
The way she uses her statistics and how her cause and effect argument is how Lourdes leaves Enrique as a child and then he grows up and goes looking for her leaving his unborn child in Honduras. This is all a cycle of immigrants having to look for lost parents and crossing the border alone to find their parents, and then staying here in the United States and living here illegally. In addition, her detailed way of describing every moment of this book like how Lourdes acts after not seeing Enrique for 11 years because she left him behind in Honduras. How she would try to take care of him like if he were the same five year old she left behind in Honduras and how Enrique angers against her for not being there and now Lourdes wants to be a mother to him. Sonia Nazario says, “For months I traveled in Enrique’s footsteps, I lived with the near-constant danger of being beaten, robbed, or raped” (xxi). The author going on the journey that many Central Americans take every day to arrive in the United States emphasizes the story of “Enrique’s