Answers SWCSD English II - Sem 1 - UPDATED OCT 2024Analyzing Author's Purpose and Perspective in a Travelogue

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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?"

It helps create uneasiness.

It helps create trust.

It helps create hope.

It helps create calmness.

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Read the excerpt from "Children of the Drug Wars.”To ensure this isn’t a sham process, asylum officers and judges must be trained in child-sensitive interviewing techniques to help elicit information from fearful, traumatized youngsters. All children must also be represented by a volunteer or government-funded lawyer. Kids in Need of Defense, a nonprofit that recruits pro bono lawyers to represent immigrant children and whose board I serve on, estimates that 40 percent to 60 percent of these children potentially qualify to stay under current immigration laws—and do, if they have a lawyer by their side. The vast majority do not. The only way to ensure we are not hurtling children back to circumstances that could cost them their lives is by providing them with real due process.

It emphasizes that it is easy for children to get immigration status.

It reminds readers that young, innocent lives are being harmed by failed policies.

It helps to convince readers that immigration laws for children should be changed.

It helps to convince readers that more lawyers are needed to defend children.

Read the excerpt from Enrique’s Journey.Enrique greets the dawn without incident. The stars recede. The sky lightens behind the mountains to the east, and mist rises off the fields on both sides of the tracks. Men trot by on burros with tin milk containers strapped to their saddles, starting their morning deliveries.

The author uses dialogue to evoke a sense of happiness.

The author uses characterization to show bitter feelings.

The author uses structure to show the sequence of events.

The author uses setting to show a sense of accomplishment.

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.

Both point out the tragic nature of situations in which children make journeys without their parents.

Both describe what immigrant children must do to survive when traveling to the United States.

Both explain why most children want to leave Central America without their parents.

Both indicate the tragic problems and their consequences that children in Central America must face.

Read the excerpt from Enrique’s Journey.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."We should also make it easier for children to apply as refugees when they are still in Central America, as we have done for people in Iraq, Cuba, countries in the former Soviet Union, Vietnam and Haiti. Those who showed a well-founded fear of persecution wouldn’t have to make the perilous journey north alone.

Both include information that ask people to help children from Central America.

Both offer solutions that show how victims from other countries have been helped.

The excerpt from Enrique’s Journey uses quotations to show that it is better for these children to be sent back, and “Children of the Drug Wars” uses examples describing how other countries have dealt with the issue.

The excerpt from Enrique’s Journey tells a story about what happened to one victim, and “Children of the Drug Wars” uses words that create an emotional response to persuade readers to take action.

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.

She provides detailed descriptions of how humanitarian groups help victims.

She tells of the struggles through a narrative of child migrants trying to get out of Central America.

She gives an account of actual violence inflicted on a teenager in Central America.

She offers a reason why getting sent back is easier than being given refugee status.

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.

It helps create an element of suspicion.

It shows that Enrique is resourceful.

It shows that Enrique is a gangster.

It explains Enrique’s motives for traveling north.

How does the meaning of the underlined word, prowl, support the author’s purpose in this excerpt? Select two options.

It illustrates that the police overlook the gangsters’ crimes.

It shows what happens when police allow gangsters to operate.

It indicates that the gangsters are looking for vulnerable people.

It explains why the gangsters were sent back to their home countries.

It supports the idea that the gangsters are involved in criminal activities.

Read the excerpt from "Children of the Drug Wars.”These children are facing threats similar to the forceful conscription of child soldiers by warlords in Sudan or during the civil war in Bosnia. Being forced to sell drugs by narcos is no different from being forced into military service.Read the excerpt from Enrique’s Journey.The MS gangsters decide to retaliate and throw the gangster off the train. Enrique refuses to participate, creating a rift. "If you are MS, you have to kill 18th Streeters. And if you are 18th Street, you must kill MS. I wasn't like that," Enrique says.After the fight with his friends, halfway through Chiapas, the gang members stop riding with Enrique. That night, without their protection, the six men beat him on top of the train.

Both describe situations in which people have to leave their country to find a better life.

Both describe situations in which people are expected to commit crimes or face violence.

Both describe situations in which people have the ability to improve their lives by following orders.

Both describe situations in which people are given a choice between doing what is expected or doing what is right.

Read the excerpt from Enrique’s Journey.Enrique’s head throbs. The sun reflects off the metal. It stings his eyes, and his skin tingles. It drains the little energy he has left. He moves around the car, chasing patches of shade. For a while, he stands on a narrow ledge at the end of a fuel tanker. It is just inches above the wheels. He cannot let himself fall asleep; one good shake of the train, and he would tumble off.

to tell when and where the story takes place

to explain how difficult it is to travel in some climates

to show how dangerous it is to leave Honduras

to introduce the main character and describe his traits

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