Parades 1
Ariela Parades
10/30/12
Ms. Alvarez
Eng. 1A The Pursuit of Happiness
In the movie, El Norte talks about two young people named Enrique and Rosa that are struggling to live in fear in Guatemala and wish to go to the United States. They are living in fear because the Mexican soldiers are trying to kill all the Guatemalans. Enrique and his family are Maya Indians and they are very traditional Indians. Mexicans soldiers killed Enrique’s father after meeting with his friends; his head was cut off and was hanging of a tree. A soldier was still at the place where his dad was killed and also tries to kill Enrique. But Enrique manage to kill him first, once that happened Enrique runs away and was hiding because they were out to get him. Rosa was sad because she thought Enrique was dead as well but they meet up again. Enrique was talking with fear to his sister Rosa saying he needs to leave because it’s not safe for him to be in the village. Enrique said to Rosa, “Me voy a Norte.” Rosa said she will go with him but Enrique said no at first but after awhile he said ok. Enrique and Rosa had a long journey to reach the board of the United States and Mexico because they wanted a better life for themselves and also to show the viewers it’s not easy to be a immigrate.
The journey that Enrique and Rosa took from their village to the board of the United States was a very long trip. They had little money to start off with and they were lucky to have found some good people on their way there. The first thing they had to do was to Parades 2 pretend they were Mexicans and talk like them as well in order to cross to Mexico because there Spanish was more different then the way Mexicans talked. So they crossed the Guatemala Mountains to enter Mexico. After doing that they jumped into this truck which a Mexican was driving it, he was