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         In the movie “Under the Same Moon” Carlitos is a nine years old boy who happens to be living with his grandmother in Mexico, separated from his mother that lives in Los Angeles, California but as an illegal immigrant. On his birthday party it was the last time he talked with his mother through the phone. Furthermore, his uncle and his wife went to visit Carlitos to congratulate him. They also went to tell him that his grandmother was going to die because she was very sick, and that he needed somebody that could take care of him.  However, the fact is that his uncle alone with his wife does not care about Carlitos’ well being.  As evidence, there’s a conversation in the movie between Carlitos’ uncle and his grandmother discussing that when Carlitos was born, he was denied by his father’s family. In the contrary, his uncle and the wife tried to convince Carlitos to go live with them because his mother was providing three hundred dollars monthly to support him, but since his father’s family did not care about him they were planning to keep the money.   

       In the majority of the times in the movie, Carlitos spends more time with adults than children, meaning that he has a lot of knowledge. Carlitos is a very clever child because throughout his grandmother’s teachings, he was able to see that something was wrong with his uncle and the wife. Carlitos’ conflict turned even more difficult when his grandmother died, because he only had two options.  He either had the choice of going to live with his uncle or go after his mother in which is very courageous as a child that he is. To defeat this obstacle Carlitos chose to go after his mother in the North of America. He had a few dollars saved from the job that he maintained, which was based on providing illegal documentation to people that wanted to cross the border.  Carlitos used the money that he earned to cross the border, but once he did, he ended up by himself walking with strangers in search of his mother. Although Carlitos and his mother did not have good communication between them, Carlitos’ splendid imagination allowed him to resolve his conflict by thinking about the place where his mother would be standing while talking with him on the phone on Sundays. Almost at the end of the movie Carlitos starts to describe every place that he gets trying to find the right place that his mother described especially for him.