The excerpt describes the care with which Enrique must take when jumping onto a moving freight car. When the narrator starts talking about the peril Enrique faces if he misses, the train is given human traits. The migrants further this when they say "The train ate him up." The train can't actually eat the boy, but it will seem as though it did because of the way the body will be torn up on the tracks.
Fear a lot of the time. When one is corrupt, the people that wanted to keep them corrupted could come find out who told the authorities and come after them.
