POST #4

Enrique's Journey
Pages (65-80)
Dajiana Bunton

      So far in this novel, Enrique leaves Honduras to find his mother. On the journey to The United States, he encountered different types of struggles from getting beaten to almost being arrested. Enrique had been found by the police and departed many times back to Honduras. One time he and many others where in a cemetery located where the trains usually head North. They were there because they planned on catching the next train and sometimes trains didn't come for three or four days at a time, so they slept there over night.

       Around dusk, the cemetery was raided by "police with blue suits" as Enrique tells us in the story. He doesn't make it and the police catch him. He is badly beaten and is taken to the police station to get ready to be departed back to the Honduras. But, when officials are distracted he takes a look at the time and remembers the next train leaves at 10 am. He tells the other migrants he needs to go. He saw a bike leaned up against the railing close by. The other migrants help him to reach the bike and just like that he is free. He makes it to the next train.

       All throughout this chapter of the book he faces difficulties with trying to reach the United States. I think as I read further into the book he will eventually make it to the United States and get to see his mother but everything isn't going to be like he thought it would be. He will realize that she is really struggling trying to make it.