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Drawing conclusions about the Cause and effect of having a community thru…

- - - - one obvious thing that Oscar and Lupita have is the support system through their communities: their families, both immediate and extended, the labor families they work with and go to school with, and their teachers, support groups, etc.
        
        more specifically: lupita has the support of her family, who make sacrificies for her to get her education in one place at a time: "I talked to my parents about it. It took a little bit of convincing, because they didn’t know how it would work, because we had never been apart from each other. But eventually they gave in. They thought it was the best for me, too, for my education. "
        
        her support from community is larger than just through her family, however: "I went to the meetings of the migrant program, all the time.12 They told us about the help that we could get, the financial aid. The migrant program has helped me to be more awake. Because you’re basically asleep, you don’t know anything, and they kind of wake you up and tell you about these steps that you have to follow.” (17)
        
        Lupita has the CAMP program. She says, "I feel like I had help everywhere. She notes, "Ever since I can remember, both of my parents would always tell me, “You have to go to school so you can work in better conditions than what we’re working in.” So I feel like it’s something that they inculcated in me. That there was no way out but going to school."
        
        To elaborate on this point: she has a catalyst to a better life: education. Her catalyst for a better life, her means to get her dreams is readily available to her: education.
        
        in contrast, kids like Manu cannot even dream of having a better life in his environment- Hondurus is dangerous, there aren't people looking out for him-- “My government?They don’t do shit for anybody like me, that’s the problem.” And describes hpw he filed a police report against the gang, Barrio 18, that killed his friend." Their only option is to escape
        
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        Oscar has his friends, his counselor, etc:
        
        "On working in the fields, Oscar reflects that, “Yeah, it was very difficult. It was hard working those long hours out in the sun...But we had each other. It wasn’t like: I packed my own lunch, everyone get away from me. We all had lunch together, and we’d share whatever we brought...”
        
        Oscar emphasizes how this theme of lending a hand is apparent by noting that “Everyone on that block would help each other. You know, if walls needed to go up, everyone would go and help build those walls.” When Oscar told his friends that because he wasn’t good with paperwork, he’d apply to college the next year, “My friends said no, that’s not gonna happen. I grew up with them, we worked the same fields, went through school together from the first grade. So they reported me to one of the counselors... He [ the counselor] called me in and he said, ‘You’re gonna sit here and you’re not gonna leave this office until you fill out all your college applications and your financial aid forms.”’ The counselor sits with Oscar while he fills out all of the applications and even drives Oscar to the post office to mail them. It is clear that both the counselor and Oscar’s friends happily lend a hand to make sure he can succeed, similar to how everyone helps build the walls and shares food during lunch time. They support each other.
- - - - "Even if they don't have direct experience with the gnags, the threat lurks constantly..."(73)
        
        “‘They killed his [Manu’s] friend in front of him, you know, and I knew he’d be next”’(89)
        
        Manu moves from Tegucigalpa to Heampstead, Is not welcomed in either places. “Why did you come to the United States? we ask. They might ask a similar question...Why did they come here, as if in some cicular nightmare, they arrived at new schools, in their new neighborhoods, and find there the very things they were running from?” (88)
        this needs to go at the end of the second paragraph to say that there still isn't a real answer, bc he still faces the same problems. so yes he is chasing a possible life, but is that really all? is that enough of a reason to risk your life?
        
        "the teenage girls are often sexually harassed by [the gangs] or recruited to be girlfriends. Boys are told that their little sister, cousin, or girlfriend will be raped if they don't man up and join."(74)
    - - Programa Frontera Sur:goes after central American migrants, even those who can legally seek asylum in the US or Mexico
        
        "[Manu] filed a police report months before his friend was killed, but the police never did anything. And Manu knew, because everyone knew this is how it is, that the police wouldn't do anything to prevent a second incident, or a third." (75)
- - - - because despite everything the home country lacks that the US has, what is most lost is a sense of power when a group is established and its power is realized.
        
        they are chasing a chance to find something greater than themselves, and not just a community, but the change a community can make.
        
        identity that is genuinely powerful because it is, in its greater community, can create meaningful change. and that individual power and identity is what they're after.
        
        its not just a dream of establishing a safe life, but a meaningful one as well.