Read the excerpt from Enrique’s Journey.He was five years old when his mother left him. Now he is almost another person.Read the excerpt from "Children of the Drug Wars."Children from Central America have been making that journey, often without their parents, for two decades.
Read the excerpt from Enrique’s Journey.Before the train leaves, the gangsters roam the Tapachula depot, eyeing which migrants are buying food and where they stash their cash afterward. They try to get friendly with the migrants, telling them they have already done the train ride. Maybe they can offer tips? Many of the gangsters wear white plastic rosaries around their necks so the migrants will be less suspicious. They ask, "Where are you from? Where are you going? Do you have any money?"
Read the excerpt from Enrique’s Journey.Hours later, the Red Cross asked Cancino if he could help an injured migrant. It was the same Honduran teenager. His right ribs were broken. His entire chest and face were badly bruised. He spoke slowly, in a whisper, clasping his chest. Two gangsters had overheard his description and kicked him mercilessly. "Next time, we kill you," the gangsters told him. The teenager, afraid for his life, asked to be deported.Read the excerpt from "Children of the Drug Wars."But, as I learned when I returned to Nueva Suyapa last month, a vast majority of child migrants are fleeing not poverty, but violence.
In Enrique’s Journey, Sonia Nazario tells readers about Enrique’s emotional journey as he tries to leave Honduras. Why does writing about this in the form of a biography support her purpose?
Which statement best supports the author’s purpose in "Children of the Drug Wars,” which is to persuade readers that the United States should do more to help immigrant children from Honduras?
Read the excerpt from "Children of the Drug Wars.”To permanently stem this flow of children, we must address the complex root causes of violence in Honduras, as well as the demand for illegal drugs in the United States that is fueling that violence.The purpose of the underlined phrase in the excerpt is to show that the consequences of violence in Honduras and drug demand in the US
Read the excerpt from Enrique’s Journey.During his first attempts north, a chance meeting saved Enrique from the worst of the gangs. As he set out on his trip, he noticed another teenager, a gangster named El Brujo, at the bus station in Honduras waiting to go to the Mexican border. Enrique doesn’t like gangs. But as the two spent hours traveling through Honduras and Guatemala together, they became friends. On their first train ride through Chiapas, El Brujo introduced Enrique to a dozen other MS members, among them Big Daddy, who is skinny and short; El Chino (the Chinaman), who has slanted eyes; and El Payaso (the Clown), who has a big mouth and eyes. On subsequent trips, when he was deported, he always stuck with one of these gang members to protect himself from any attacks.
Read the excerpt from "Children of the Drug Wars.”By sending these children away, "you are handing them a death sentence,” says José Arnulfo Ochoa Ochoa, an expert in Honduras with World Vision International, a Christian humanitarian aid group. This abrogates international conventions we have signed and undermines our credibility as a humane country. It would be a disgrace if this wealthy nation turned its back on the 52,000 children who have arrived since October, many of them legitimate refugees.
Read the excerpt from Enrique’s Journey.Enrique puts Chiapas behind him. He still has far to go, but he has faced the beast eight times now, and he has lived through it. It is an achievement, and he is proud of it.The excerpt refers to Chiapas as "the beast.” What is the purpose of using this metaphor in the excerpt?
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