- help fast - How does the author use language in the excerpt from
Enrique's Journey to support the author's purpose in
the excerpt from "Children of the Drug
Wars"?
Read the excerpt from Enrique's Journey.
Hours later, the Red Cross asked Cancino if he could
help an injured migrant. It was the same Honduran
teenager. His right ribs were broken. His entire chest
and face were badly bruised. He spoke slowly, in a
whisper, clasping his chest. Two gangsters had
overheard his description and kicked him mercilessly.
"Next time, we kill you," the gangsters told him. The
teenager, afraid for his life, asked to be deported.
Read the excerpt from "Children of the Drug Wars."
But, as I learned when I returned to Nueva Suyapa last
month, a vast majority of child migrants are fleeing not
poverty, but violence.
O She provides detailed descriptions of how
humanitarian groups help victims.
O She tells of the struggles through a narrative of child
migrants trying to get out of Central America.
O She gives an account of actual violence inflicted on
a teenager in Central America.
O She offers a reason why getting sent back is easier
than being given refugee status.
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