In Crossing The Wire Will Hobbs presents the central theme that people encounter struggles in order to survive difficult journeys. Hobbs wants reader to understand that crossing the border involves struggles and people have to take risks to survive. In other countries people have a lack of opportunities, so a lot of the times they migrate to America although the journey is grueling. Will Hobbs includes the symbol of barbed wire (85). The spikey sharp wire emphasizes the obstacles people overcome that are dangerous. The wire illustrates how migrants can run into difficult problems along the journey that can challenge their chances of survival. For instance originally victors plan was to hop the fence along the border into America but when he