'Enrique\'s Journey by Sonia Nazario'

'While chance upon Enriques journey, I found a couple ideas introduced in the obtain to be particularly captivating. Although I am indisputable that these couple ideas I was most raise in, were not the principal(prenominal) focuses of the plot, by actively reading and fashioning a nonstop effort to full understand the characters by putting myself in his or her amaze in the story, these few thing atomic number 18 what ended up impacting me the most.\nIn the story, Enrique richly believes that reuniting with his mother is the only when thing that get out make him euphoric. This totally almost nowadays causes him most of the mishap he endures passim his journey. I could yoke to this. not the particular events, but the boilersuit belief that your pleasure lies in person elses hands. I was able to see that this is not true. It can, and necessarily lead, cause you to be disappointed. Enrique allowed himself to become improbably unhappy. He puts himself in such spi ritedness threatening situations average to fulfill this senseless perception of happiness that he has created in his own mind. later on seeing the risk in allowing yourself to be on others for joy, it raise me to designate deeper most the topic. I think that you be in possession of to pick up yourself to be happy on your own. Not to wait on someone or something, not to propound yourself, when I have this ill be happy. In the end, you will be disappointed. unbent happiness comes from in spite of appearance of you, and in my belief, from ghostlike enlightenment.\nThe other petty(a) thing that squeeze me in a way I dont think the seed necessarily intended, was the schools and ecumenic way of bearing of the characters. I do of course think that the author of the book fully anticipate for these harsh environments expound to make a certain proofreader slightly more appreciative of their surroundings, however, Ive presumed that it personally had a much great affec t on me than that. The story mentions specifically, mothers ply their children sugar pee whenever t... '