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Indledning
Today there’s a lot of poverty in some countries all over the world, and people are trying to escape from their native country because they want a better life with more money and a better job. There are a lot of different possibilities to escape from one’s native country, but then you can be turned into an illegal immigrant. If you for example are trying to go to a country by sailing without anyone knowing it, then you’re an illegal immigrant.

But some people have to do it and take the risk because the poverty can be so bad in some countries and in some cases these journeys can kill a whole family.

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Uddrag
The story “Alines journey” is set to the year, 2003. The story follows the characters from the poor country Haiti to the US in a clandestine journey. Aline and her family's living conditions in Haiti are very bad, and their house is small, in bad condition and often flooded. “Our house is a two-room concrete house in a town calledSayira.

The pebbly road out front leads to the sea. Sometimes when it rains, our rooms get flooded and we must go inland to escape the waters.” (p. 12, l. 4-6) The family is on the crowded boats and everyone is very nervous about what’s going to happen now.

In the US there are two very important physical places: “compound in a place called Krome” (p. 15, l. 3) and the hotel room, which are both informal prisons for illegal immigrants whose status is yet to be decided.

Krome is where the men are kept, and the place is probably harsher than the hotel rooms where Aline and her mother are taken.

However, the hotel room is still confining and desolating for Aline and her mother Creole who are not even allowed to have windows open: “All I see of Miami are the same four beige walls.

Our windows are sealed shut and we’re not allowed to open them to breathe fresh air.” (p. 15, l. 22-24) The family really don’t want to go back to Haiti, because when the family is in the courtroom and judged the father kneels and begs to the judge to let them stay in the US.