Enrique's Journey Analysis

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While I was reading Enrique’s Journey book, I concluded that it was a journey about miserable pain, unbeaten trail, and emotional panic. Most of the people travel to US by train where they had to face lots of trouble but many of them were deported when they caught by Mexican police. If they didn’t catch and reached U.S soil they would have to face lots of difficulties. The book talks about the story of voyagers, who travel far in search of mothers, better jobs, and single mom who couldn’t raise their kids. Travelers, especially children and women, who had various problems in their homeland ended-up going to U.S, has to encounter with rape, assault, becoming handicap and deportation at Mexican border by bandits, gangster and police.
Unfortunately, Many women, whose husband had left them for other women, had difficulty to rise by kids by themselves. Those women had tried to do different kind of jobs in their homeland such as selling tortillas and clothes, but still they couldn’t earn their livelihood, so that they ended-up with the plan to travel to North to find better jobs and opportunities. While they decided to leave for U.S, they left their kids with their relatives or parents to take care of them. Grandparents or relatives who were in charge of those
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Bandit and gangster in the Mexican rape women, who were traveling by trains, and they couldn’t report about such problems to police because they were illegally crossing border. Nobody is going to help them in foreign land and they didn’t complain due to scared deportation. Children were assault by polices, gangsters and bandits in the train and on the street. Children, who were travel by trains and tried to catch moving trains or cars ended-up with losing their legs and arm or becoming handicap. Some of the children and women, who were caught by police, are deporting back to