Using the R.A.C.E.S. method, construct a well-written response of at least 5 sentences and no more than 8 to answer the following prompt.
Considering the thematic concept of hope and the passage below, compose a thematic statement addressing the
question: What is the author's message regarding hope in Enrique's Journey? Use the excerpt below to provide textual evidence to support your claim.
Migrants watch from atop the cars as a baker, his hands coated with
flour, throws his extra loaves. A seamstress throws sandwiches. A
carpenter throws bean burritos. A teenager throws oranges in
November, when they are plentiful, and watermelons and pineapples in July. People who have watched migrants fall off the train from
exhaustion bring jugs filled with coffee. A stooped woman, more than a hundred years old, who in her youth
was reduced to eating the bark of her plantain tree during the Mexican
Revolution, forces her knotted hands to fill bags with tortillas, beans,
and salsa so her daughter, who is seventy years old, can run down a
rocky slope and heave them onto a train. "If I have one tortilla, I give
half away," the stooped woman says. "I know God will bring me
more."
Gladys González Hernández waits for the diesel horn. There it is, at
last! The girl runs down the narrow aisles of her father's grocery,
snatching crackers, water bottles, and pastries off the shelves. She
dashes outside. Gladys and her father, Ciro González Ramos, wave to
the migrants on board the train. She is six years old.
Ciro González, thirty-five, taught Gladys to do this; he wants her to
grow up right.
"Why do you give them food?" she asked him once. Her father said,
"Because they have traveled far and haven't eaten."