Enrique\'s Journey by Sonia Nazario

While reading Enriques journey, I found a braces ideas introduced in the give-and-take to be particularly captivating. Although I am sure that these couple ideas I was approximately evoke in, were non the main focuses of the plot, by actively reading and qualification a continuous sweat to full understand the characters by putting myself in his or her position in the story, these a couple of(prenominal) occasion are what finish up impacting me the most.\nIn the story, Enrique fully believes that reuniting with his m otherwise is the only thing that will make him skilful. This only when almost directly causes him most of the hardship he endures end-to-end his journey. I could relate to this. non 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 l ivingtime threatening situations just to run this false perception of comfort that he has created in his feature mind. After seeing the endangerment in allowing yourself to depend on others for joy, it provoked me to think deeper rough the topic. I concluded that you contain to teach yourself to be happy on your own. Not to hold back 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 inner of you, and in my belief, from religious enlightenment.\nThe other small thing that squeeze me in a guidance I dont think the author unavoidably intended, was the schools and general way of life of the characters. I do of logical argument think that the author of the agree fully expected for these harsh environments described to make a certain reader meagrely more appreciative of their surroundings, however, Ive presumed that it personally had a practically greater affect on me than that. The story mentions specifically, mothers feeding their children staff of life water whenever t...