Vocabulary
The Mexican police focused on sending migrants back into Central America.
What is La Migra?
This character is on a journey to find his mom in the U.S.
Who is Enrique?
At the beginning of the book, Enrique wanted to travel to which country?
What is the USA?
The most dangerous town in Mexico known to Migrants as the beast.
The two things Enrique uses to get high in Honduras.
What is Glue and Drugs?
The name given to the United States by immigrants traveling there.
What is El Norte?
This character left her kids, Enrique and Belky, to go to the US to provide a better life for them.
Who is Lourdes?
Enrique used this form of transportation for most of his journey into the United States.
What are Trains?
True or False: Police can be relied on my migrants to help them.
What is False?
The reason Lourdes leaves Honduras.
What is making money for her family.
The name given to the Chiapas, a dangerous part of Mexico, by migrants.
What is La Bestia?
This character is a relative of Enrique who truly loved him, and who Enrique deeply respected. He was shot and killed resulting in Enrique having to live with other family.
Who is Uncle Marco?
What is the Mexican-United States border.
Strategies used by Enrique and other migrants to stay awake on the trains.
What is slapping their faces, doing squats, pouring alcohol into their eyes.
What is his mom leaving him?
What is Veracruz?
This Character began to take in migrants and provide things such as food and medicine for them. She works for free.
Who is Olga?
The location where Lourdes moved, after leaving California.
What is North Carolina?
This place is an isolated agricultural area with very few hiding places.
What is La Arrocera?
The name of the police hunting down migrants.
What is La Migra?
The gang who controls "Little Hell", where Enrique and his friends are able to buy drugs.
What is Mara Salvatrucha?
Makes a deal with Enrique giving him food and a place to sleep in exchange for Enriques work.
Who is the Brick Maker?
The location the trains are leading Enrique to.
What is Mexico City?
This happens to Enrique when he is no longer with the gang members.
What is Beat on top of a train?
A trait all migrants must have to make the journey.
What is Perseverance.