Melissa Gurevitch post 3

The theme of The Lonely Crossing of Juan Cabrera is, "you can't let hard times prevent you from reaching your goals". In the beginning of the story, Juan, Raul, and Andres begin their journey together. Soon after they depart though, Juan and Raul are faced with their first hardship, Andres' murder. This was difficult for both of them, but they did not let it bring them down. A little later when the hurricane strikes Juan and Raul loose almost everything. Instead of complaining they immediately begin to think about how to survive. Not too long after the hurricane, Juan is faced with one of the hardest parts of the journey, the death of his friend Raul. It was very hard for Juan to loose someone so close to him and in addition he was left alone to make it to Miami. Many people would have given up at this point and Juan almost did. Juan realises though that he can still make it. The book showed me that you will have to face difficult times in your life, but you can't let that stop you from living your life. Juan set out with the goal to obtain freed on and no matter what happened, he continued his journey until it was accomplished.