Lit Circle Post 3 !

Quote #1
Page:186 Paragraph 3.
Dialouge:Enriquez mind.

America is beautiful. The buildings are huge. The freeways have traffic exchanges with double and triple decks. They are nothing like the dirt streets at home. Everything is clean.

Significance:
What I think this quote means is what Enrique is thinking. He is in America and he is seeing what it looks like. I think that he can be the happiest person right now. He has called his mom and found out that his mom is all the way up in North Carolina. Enrique arrives to a big house, where they dress him as "American's" will. They call his mother for the second time. They have promise "El Tirandero" $1200. Enrique has been excited to get to America when he was in Nuevo Laredo. When they call Enriquez mother and tell her that they aren't asking for $1200 anymore, but $1700. Lourdes boyfriend goes and picks Enrique up from Orlando,Florida. Enrique is very happy. I think that this can be the happiest person in the world. He is going to be able to see his mother he hasn't seen in 11 years.

Personal Connection:
I can't connect to this, but I choose it because it's one of the few parts in the story that is happy. I think that the paragraph were Enrique and Lourdes re-unite is something that even you weren't going through it, it makes you happy. You have read everything that Enrique has gone through and those seven attempts and how many times he got beaten up; is just makes you feel happy. All the trys he had to go through finally payed up.

Question:
What did you feel when you read that Enrique and Lourdes found each other ?






Quote #2:
Page:149 Paragraph:2-3

"We charge a thousand pesos [$100] to cross this river"
Hernandez balked, and the officer lowered their price. "If you don't give us five hundred pesos, ten days in jail" he says one yelled.
He says another warned, "Throw yourself into the river, and kill you."


Significance:
This quote isn't really part of the story its more like the end of the book facts. It shows what a person who tries to cross into the United states has to go through. People rob them, or if not beat them up and do other things. Also they would put the immigrant/ refugee in a tight position where they would need to decide between their lives and crossing.



Personal Connection:
So I haven't really been in a situation where I have to choose between my life and crossing somewhere, but I can visualize it like if it was happening to me and know by that, that it wouldn't be a good thing. If this ever happened to me I wouldn't know what to decide and would just try to escape the person putting me in this position.



Question:
Have you ever been in a situation where you need to decide to do one thing or the other.... and you can't find which choice is better.?