pages (21-40)
Dajiana Bunton
Enrique is bewildered. He is upset that can’t see his mother. She continues to say she will come back on Christmas and doesn't. His confusion turns to anger. When they speak on the phone, which is very rare, she almost demands that she returns. Even her mother begs for her to return but she doesn't. Her eldest child Belky is anger with her because she had another child. She thinks that her mother will forget about her and her little brother.
Lourdes always encounters crooks how she has given over thousands of dollars to so that they can give her legal papers. These fraud people and organizations never came through for Lourdes. She also contemplates on whether or not she should or shouldn't hire a smuggler to bring her children to the United States. Coyotes, another word they call smugglers, are very expensive and sometimes do not deliver the children. Her close friends in Long Beach, where she resides, had bad experiences with smugglers from abandonment to death so she goes against that idea.
As Enrique gets older, he becomes rebellious. He misbehaves in school and disrespects his grandmother. Soon enough he gets sent to live with his uncle. Lourdes moves to North Carolina. She tells her children that California was much too expensive so she sold almost everything she had and moved. She now has two jobs that pay enough for her and her daughter, Diana, to maintain good living and for her to be able to send Enrique and Belky money. She is proud that she is able to pay for Belky's private high school tuition. Enrique still is livid with her as to why she didn't return home when she said she would.
Marco, Enrique's uncle works for exchanging Mexican money. After his security guard is killed trying to make an exchange, Macro says he quits that job until an opportunity comes along that has to do with a lot of money that can be made, he does it claim this will be his last time. Enrique begs to go but he's uncle said he's too young. Robbers kill he’s uncle along the way. In Enrique's eyes that is the only person that really been there for him. Marco's girlfriend sold all of Enrique's gifts from his uncle and kicks him out. He has to live with his maternal grandmother.
Reading this story i can understand why Enrique feels that no one is there for him. His mother leaves him and doesn't return when she said she would. As a child, i would feel rebellious too if that is the only way to get people to notice me.
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