POST #5

Enrique's Journey

Pages (80-100)
Dajiana Bunton

An example of what a Frieght Train looks like.



Continuing this book, Enrique gets further towards the United States, much further than he expected. He learns the ends and outs of the freight trains and how they work. In one of the certain kinds of trains a man tells him a story about it becoming so hot in the train, people had passed out. A women in particular with asthma how begged and pleaded for something to drink and then fainted out unconscious. Others used her as a step in stool to reach the high holes in the ceiling so that they would be able to get some fresh air.

Enrique learns that that the box trains are easiest but nothing about them is safe. Once he enters the box train, it starts to come to a stop. Bandits tell him to come down, he says no. There is no ladder that reaches the ground so a few of the bandits hops up to bring him down and Enrique starts to run. With the bandits chasing him and the ones running on foot throwing stones at him telling him to come down, he keeps going. Eventually he has to hop off the end of the trains and has to hide.

So far this book has me on edge; Enrique has been caught and departed so many times and still maintains to never quit and keep going. Now he has gotten further then he had been and the bandits are chasing him.