Topic: You have read two short stories, "Children of the Drug Wars" and "Enrique's Journey" that discuss the travel of children away from their homes without the accompaniment of their parents.
Prompt: Consider how each of the short stories presents the journey of the children as a tragedy. Write a well-developed paragraph that explains the tragic nature of the
situation in which the children in both stories make the difficult journey without their parents. Use the RACE method (Restate the prompt, Answer the prompt/questions,
Cite evidence from the text, Explain your reasoning).