A portion of their journey is spent in guatemala and mata gente, a dangerous freight train that goes up all the way to the border of california. Search the worlds information, including webpages, images, videos and more. She teaches english as a second language to mexicanamerican seventh and eighth graders in salinas, california. The line is a 2009 actioncrime film directed by james cotten.
Fifteenyearold miguel and his thirteenyearold sister, elena, have been waiting. Miguel has dreamed of joining his parents in california since the day they left him behind in mexico six years, eleven months, and twelve days ago. Fifteenyearold miguel and his thirteenyearold sister, elena, have been waiting to join their parents in california for years when they finally set. A mexican teen risks everything to emigrate illegally to the u. It provides insights into the difficulties of making the decision to migrate and just how much is left behind friends, family, love, history, sense of home. Ann jaramillo conflict elena also wanted to go north to see their parents and get an educations as much as miguel, maybe even more. Their corrupt line of policemen were set up to protect drug traffickers, but after forming an alliance with barrio azteca to fight off the forces of the sinaloa cartel in 2008, they established a foothold. Veteran assassin mark shields is hired to track down the head of an elusive drug cartel centered in tijuana, mexico. But miguels carefully laid plans change suddenly when his younger sister elena stows away and follows him. Elena decided to go north without miguel and without him knowing.
The escajedas were one of the valleys oldest families. Gary chapman phd is the author of the new york times bestselling the five love languages book and series. Setting miguel and his younger sister elena live with their grandmother on a ranch in the small mexican village san jacinto. Google has many special features to help you find exactly what youre looking for. Learn vocabulary, terms, and more with flashcards, games, and other study tools. I did not know much about this book prior to reading it for an assignment, but i am glad i had the opportunity to read it. This book describes and illustrates clearly the perils and fears of a migrant journey.
This story is about his journey across the border with unintended company. Shields takes the assignment in a weary daze, as he is fresh off a. Biding his time for six years in a backwater mexican village, miguel, his younger sister elena and his grandmother survive on money his parents send monthly from california. On the morning of his fifteenth birthday, miguels wait is over. Two of the men exited the dodge caravan at a street corner and escaped.
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