The literal definition of a mother is a woman who has given birth to a child. My view of a true mother is someone that expresses an unconditional amount of love for a child and properly raises them. A true mother is always there for their child. After reading Sonia Nazario’s award winning narrative, Enrique’s Journey, I felt compelled to have a deeper understanding of what a true mother actually is. Lourdes, Enrique, and Belky all have different views on motherhood and what being a mother and a guardian actually mean. After reading this narrative, these characters’ experiences helped reinforce my existing views on motherhood. Throughout the story, Lourdes’s notion of motherhood is someone who financially supports her children. In Honduras, Lourdes has no job, no money, and no way of supporting her family. She is in a difficult point in her like that many women in her home country of Honduras find them selves in. She can choose to starve with her family, or she can make the barbaric journey North, to the United States and leave everything, including her children behind. Lourdes decides that she is going to the United States only for one year at most. (Nazario 4). Lourdes cannot even face her five-year-old son. She hugs her son, Enrique and her daughter, Belky, and heads north. As if losing their mother is not enough, Lourdes splits up the two siblings. Belky stays with Lourdes’s mother while Enrique stays with his father. Lourdes never returns and leaves the children feeling alone and confused. Technically Lourdes is a mother, however, she is thousands of miles away from her children. Her view of motherhood is the opposite of my view. She is starting a new life and cannot raise her own kids like a real mother. Her children long for her affection, but she is in another country. She is not a true mother. She calls her children occasionally and offers them false hope. She leaves Enrique thinking, “How can I be worth anything if my mother left me” (Nazario 10). Lourdes’ absence motivates E