Enrique\'s Journey by Sonia Nazario

While reading Enriques journey, I found a couple on ideas introduced in the defend to be particularly captivating. Although I am sure that these couple ideas I was well-nigh arouse in, were non the main focuses of the plot, by actively reading and make a continuous trend to to the full understand the characters by putting myself in his or her position in the story, these few affaire are what cease up impacting me the most.\nIn the story, Enrique fully believes that reuniting with his m early(a) is the only thing that will make him riant. This whole almost directly causes him most of the hardship he endures passim his journey. I could relate to this. not the specific events, but the boilers suit belief that your happiness lies in someone elses hands. I was able to see that this is not true. It can, and inevitably will, cause you to be disappointed. Enrique allowed himself to become incredibly unhappy. He puts himself in such smell threatening situations just to play th is false perception of felicity that he has created in his admit mind. After seeing the peril in allowing yourself to depend on others for joy, it provoked me to think deeper nearly the topic. I concluded that you fox to teach yourself to be happy on your own. Not to tolerate on someone or something, not to tell yourself, when I have this ill be happy. In the end, you will be disappointed. True happiness comes from internal of you, and in my belief, from religious enlightenment.\nThe other small thing that wedge me in a elan I dont think the author necessarily intended, was the schools and general way of action of the characters. I do of gradation think that the author of the phonograph record fully expected for these unpleasant environments described to make a certain reader fairly more appreciative of their surroundings, however, Ive presumed that it personally had a untold greater affect on me than that. The story mentions specifically, mothers feeding their childr en lucre water whenever t...