A Mother’s Journey
In Particular we all share a common aspect, we all have mothers that gave life to us, from the instant they created us. A mother who loves and cares who sits downs and listens to your problems, who pushes you harder and takes the tears away. A mother is the who has a warm understanding and a infinite patience. A mother is the most important person in a child’s life, a mother who is always committed to their children and that will do the impossible for them no matter how hard the circumstances are. Our mothers can be good and bad but yet we have to understand they also learn from their children. Nobody can teach them how to be mothers, they all learn from experience. A mother is the person who provides daily for their family
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Lourdes is young, and wants a better life for her childrens future and herself as well . Lourdes wants to be able to provide the best for Belky and Enrique. From time to time Lourdes cares and provides the best for her children by sending the most amount of money as possible for her children. All her hard work is payed off, all her love and caring goes to all those hardworking nights, In other words lourdes might not be showing physical love and care, but she does show a special interest in her children life. Although she wrong by trying to buy their children 's love and promising things she shouldn 't have she still does it anyway, because that the only way she can give. Occasionally she hasn 't forgotten about them, all the love and support she gives them is shown with her hard working jobs, the frequent calls she makes, and money she provides. In reality Lourdes here is showing she wants the best for her children not only that but she wants to be involved with their lives spiritually and emotionally by providing money and giving the best advice and education they …show more content…
Based on job availability, many Mexican women have decided to immigrate to the U.S. to work and send money home to their family. Traditionally it would be the men who would travel to the united states for work, but now husbands are being left behind. There is also a growing number of single-parent female heads of house, forcing them to be both a mother and a breadwinner. This brings them guilt and stigma for breaking gender traditions, and a constant fear that their children back home will not love them anymore. Lourdes becomes a transnational mother because she has one foot set in the United states and yet another in Honduras. Lourdes becomes the provider in this case, she works day and night without nobody’s help, in order to provide the best for her smaller daughter and herself. Lourdes still has to send money back home for her childrens education and lifestyle, lourdes has become a hard working mother in order to manage her life together. Although lourdes had to escape her extreme poverty, lourdes still needed to overcome her guilt about leaving her children behind and not being able to be an important part in their
The matriarchal structure of Juan and Lupe’s families are key factor in the molding of each of them into each a unique person that just so happen to fit with each other perfectly.
In “Enrique’s Journey”, by Sonia Nazario a young boy from Honduras, sets out to reunite with his mother, Lourdes, that abandoned him when he was just five years old. Lourdes leaves to the United States, in hopes to find a better job as an immigrant and to better provide for her family. After many years of suffering without his mom, he travels through Central America to the United States in order to finally reunite with her. He finds his mother beginning to move on as she has a little daughter, named Diana. They run into problems of resentment. Will they be able to finally be a family? Sonia develops this theme of family by using specific facts and characterization. Importance
Parents and their children often share bonds that are inseparable. Even though each parent’s roles and expectations are different, they both want what is best for their children. To improve the lives of their children, many parents tried to find work in the U.S hoping to support their family back home, but also have to make sacrifices. As seen in the documentary, several unaccompanied child migrants such as Jose, Olga and Freddy, and Juan Carlos all experience transnational parenting. The
Esperanza, the most liberated of the sisters, devoted her life to make other people’s lives better. She became a reporter and later on died while covering the Gulf Crisis. She returned home, to her family as a spirit. At first, she spoke through La Llorona, a messenger who informed La Loca that her sister has died. All her family members saw her. She appeared to her mother as a little girl who had a nightmare and went near to her mother for comfort. Caridad had conversations with her about politics and La Loca talked to her by the river behind their home.
When women become mothers they love and protect their child. All mothers care about their children and always want the best for them. Children also rely on their mothers to take care of them and to love them. But when mothers become older sometimes they have to start relying on their children and their children start to take care of them. In “Youngest Daughter”, by Song a mother relies on her daughter to take care of her in her old age, but her daughter also relies on her for other things as well. In “Labor of Love”, by Tagami a mother and son must work together and care for each other during tough times. When it comes to being a mother or a child the roles can be reversible.
This Mexican family is unique in that Rosario was a single mother. The culture of the Mexicans was very family oriented, and it was not common to have single parents among their culture during this time. According to Taylor the population of female headed household has steadily increased in the last decade but less appropriate in the Hispanic population (Taylor, p. 93). Her mother, apparently very ill too...
Lourdes has had her own experience late back when Enrique was no older than 5 years old. She tends to sacrifice and leave her family behind in order for them to succeed in life themselves. Money is sent to her kids to see them in great shape with enough food, clothing and school supplies so that they can stay in school. Lourdes does not see the suffering of her kids that they are going through because they are not seeing their mother and their father has left them to begin another family. As lourdes has attempted her first journey up north, she tends to succeed to head up north with nothing stopping her. Women tend to have a faster way up north than men. An abundance of women let themselves free to any men that leads her way up north. As women head up north no cartel, mafia or gangster activity stops them towards their way to the United States. On the other hand, Enrique had struggled heading up north with all the checkpoints and failure that led him back to where he started. Not many mexican authorities love having southern countries travel through their country, which gives them the right to send them south of Mexico which is guatemala. Enrique has experience the bus of tears a huge amount of times knowing that men have trouble heading up north. Money and time was spent throughout the journey which still gave him the courage to still try to go see his mother like many other Central
Mexican Women began to work the jobs men did, such as jobs that required maintenance, miners, and defense plants. This era proved to be especially significant for Mexican American women, whose new wage-earning status created a sense of self-sufficiency and intensified issues of self-identity” (Quinones 245) These Mexican women were the “Susanas del SP” which was the Mexican version of “Rosie the Riveter.” After World War II, when women were forced to return their job to the men, their ideals of family and marriage change. They longer believe they needed a men to support them because they could be independent and support
Whenever someone mentions the word “mother”, one always tend to think of a very kind and caring figure who always whishes the best for her children. In the poem “Mother to Son” by Langston Huges, a mother is telling her son about the obstacles she had to overcome in order to get to the position she is in right now. There comes many moments in our life when we just want to give up and let fate handle everything. We face many difficulties that may not seem we can overcome but we should never give up right away. The mother in the poem is trying to convince her son to keep pushing and at the same time she is trying to set an example though her own past experience.
Martinez, Demetria. 2002. “Solidarity”. Border Women: Writing from la Frontera.. Castillo, Debra A & María Socorro Tabuenca Córdoba. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 168- 188.
A new year had just arrived. I can still picture January in my mind, the mood was sullen and dark, I could feel the cold reaching my bones, but now I know that was the best feeling I‘d ever had. I had only a few weeks left to start college, which had been my dream since I can remember. My dad had already paid for my tuition, I was so exited I had promised to do my best. Then, I realized there was an obstacle in my way. I knew I needed to make a decision on whether or not keeping my pregnancy, it sounds rough, but it was definitive. I did not want to miss school, so I was definitely not taking this to the last term. I just could not think of myself being prostrated in bed for so long, as an impediment to start school. Never, nothing would make me give up on my dreams, and that was another promise I had made to myself.
Even before my first tear hits the ground, my mother is there to wipe it away. My mother feels my pain before I can even realize it. She understands my needs before I can even think of them. That’s why we call her a mother. My mother has been an extraordinary influence on my life and always will be. She’s the kind of mom who would always take time out and care for her four children and the mom who would never let her hardships in her life distress her kids. My mother has always been a very strong role model to me, and growing up with someone like her to look up to has changed my life in many ways. She has helped me grow physically, intellectually, and considerately. She taught me to always love, care, and give back to the people I am grateful for.
Mothers and fathers work as a great team together and their differences give the child something that the others do not. Mothers offer security and are more nurturing. Fathers Offer more hands-on play and teach their kids to be more independent. Mothers are more repetitive to their kids to teach them new things. Dads show their kids things so that they learn. Mothers pamper their sons, making them feel loved and special. Dads are strict with their daughters to keep them safe. The differences between mothers and fathers create a good balance for raising their child.
...mportant person in my life and I know that she will be always there for me with help, her love, and her care. She’s a wonderful person, she admires the beauty of life, and as a result she is always in a good mood. Now, like my mother, I’m a positive thinker, and I am a creative person who believes life is what you create it to be. I also know if I have to make any big decisions in my life, I can always ask my mom for advice because she has the wisdom and experience. I also know that she will tell me the truth even if it is not something that I want to hear, but she will tell me with kindness and without any judgment. My mother is my role model because she does so much for me; she gives me everything she has just to make my life easier. I love my mother and I am so thankful that she is the way she is. My mother is always there for me and I would do anything for her.
Many people, as well as myself, believe that a mother’s influence is one of the most important influences that one will ever come in contact with in their lives. A mother’s love, comfort, and support will often help to shape a child and allow them to become the person they need to be later on in life. My mother has had a great influence on my life from day one. I often refer to her as my “rock” because she is definitely a solid foundation in my life. Being that she is a great role model, my mother’s support and presence in my life has allowed me to grow as a person, keep my spirits high through hell and high water, prosper in all that I have done, as well as mold me to be a great person in the future.