Azucena De La Rosa Author's Purpose

This story tells about a woman's childhood and he life story now and her name is Azucena. When she was a little girl, Azucena was in tall grass with her mother, aunt, and cousin. Across the field that they were in was California and if they mad it Azucena would get to meet her other aunt and they would fly to New Jersey, but they had to get pass the helicopters and border police.The family paid a Coyote $1,500 to help them get across and a coyote is a person who helps people sneak across the border. When they saw a helicopter fly pass again they ran until they got to California and then the De La Rosas flew to New Jersey. In 1986 Azucena has been living in the United States. She got her green card in 2001 and when she got her green card she got her dream come true and went on to go to college.

The author's purpose is to tell us about the life of Azucena. Also, the purpose is to tell us how her life style was when she was growing up.