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
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.
she provides detailed descriptions of how humanitarian
groups victims.
she tells of the struggles through a narrative of child
migrants trying to get out of central america.
she gives an account of actual violence inflicted on a
teenager in central america.
she offers a reason why getting sent back is easier than
being given refugee status.

She gives an account of actual violence

Explanation:

The point of this excerpt is give a clear example of the kind of violence that teenagers and migrants of all ages experience when leaving Central America to find a more peaceful place to live their lives.

The description of the bruises and wounds that the Honduran teenager suffers are the central part of the passage since the Red Cross is trying to help him and the gangsters are threatening him.

C. She gives an account of actual violence inflicted on a teenager in Central America.

Explanation:

Right on Edg.

1.creeping like a snail is a simile used in this poem and it means the child is going to school unwillingly./a child is unwilling to go to school.

2. man becomes very frail and loses his physical strength when he becomes old, so much that his leggings that used to fit him snugly when he was in his youth are now too loose for him to wear, and that his shank has shrunk so much that this worldly stage is too big for a feeble actor like him. although, 'his youthful hose' just refers to his leggings/pants/ to shrink from danger; to shrink from contact.

3.the words "sans" means "without." it is a french word that is often used in english even today. so he is saying that in the last age of a man, the man is without eyes, taste, or anything else. he also says that this is the "last stage of all" and that it is the stage that ends a man's "history."

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