Award-winning author Sonia Nazario is best known for her Pulitzer Prize–winning biography Enrique’s Journey. The book brings to life the very real and dangerous journey of a Honduran boy fleeing his home in hopes of finding his mother in America. In addition to the biography, Nazario has written countless articles informing readers of the dangers children like Enrique face. While the biography and the articles serve the same purpose and present the same ideas, they do so in different ways. You will be comparing and contrasting how Nazario informs her audience through a biography and an editorial. You may access the editorial here and the biography here. Write a comparative essay in which you compare and contrast the way Sonia Nazario presents similar ideas in a biography and an editorial. Support your comparison with well-chosen, relevant, and sufficient evidence from both texts. Apply MLA guidelines to properly cite the evidence used in your essay. Be sure your essay uses formal and objective language.

Sonia Nazario, the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist whose book Enrique’s Journey became a New York Times bestseller, will speak at Auburn on October 17 in Shelby Center Room 1103. The title of her public lecture is “Understanding immigration and life on both sides of the border.” It begins at 6:00 p.m. CST.

“Immigration in general, and students who are English Language Learners in particular, are too often reduced to simple or scary sound bites for political purposes,” said Jamie Harrison, Assistant Professor of ESOL Education in the College of Education. “Of course these issues are complex, and go to the core of our values as a nation. Sonia Nazario speaks to these issues with passion borne of experience.”

In addition to Enrique’s Journey, which covers the harrowing journey of a young Honduran boy to reunite with his mother in the U.S., Nazario’s stories have tackled some of this country’s most intractable problems — hunger, drug addiction, immigration — and have won several prestigious journalism and book awards.

Her visit to Auburn will include a lecture to the Global Fluency and Awareness class taught by Drs. Giovanna Summerfield and Iulia Pittman in the College of Liberal Arts at 11:00 a.m. in the new Mell Classroom Building, Room 2510. There are 75 students in the class, but seating capacity for 166, so visitors are welcome. Nazario will also join select students and faculty for lunch in Tichenor Hall at 12:30, and conclude with her evening lecture at 6:00 p.m.

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