After rereading Rodriguez’s essay, I would verbalize education gave him ways of speaking and caring. The ability to read and accumulate provided him with ways of speaking and caring valued in the academic community. Rodriguez expressed that because of this, he grew culturally dissevered from his siblings and parents; but it withal gave him the ways of speaking and caring about that fact. In Rodriguez visual perception, he considers his classroom and his home as two different worlds. When Rodriguez was in elementary school, he couldn’t grasp why his parents didn’t understand that consequentiality of reading. According to him, his home was strepitous and his parents always bothered and ridiculed him. Not only that, he was withal obnoxious because his …show more content…
It additionally denotes he transmuted who he was before and after the education. Even though, he exaggerates the difficulty of being a student, his exaggeration reveals a difficulty situation. He struggled a lot finding his “ways of speaking and caring”. Eventually, he understood the distinguishment between his “ways of speaking and caring” and his parents “way of speaking and caring” which availed him a lot with his life. He understood their ways of speaking and caring because he realized even though his parents might not have showed they cared very much, but he knew they did care. They just didn’t couldn’t show their emotion as much as they should have. He was conclusively able to understand what transpired to him. He was a complete transmuted man who used education to remake himself. It withal availed him a lot in his present and future. The fact that books were going to edify him, the confidence availed him to surmount his trepidation of silence. As Rodriquez looks back at his past; where he resided with his father, mother and his siblings, his family genuinely pushed him to that person he is right now and therefore he doesn’t regret anything about
Richard Rodriguez author and journalist wrote a short piece “Scholarship Boy” to explain to his audience of underprivileged children wanting a better future, the scarifies he endured as a young child: the loss of family ties and knowing himself in order to succeed a better self. Another great author who faced huge sacrifices is known as none other than abolitionist leader Fredrick Douglass, “Learning to Read and Write” giving his found audience a look into the various dangerous tasks he took to give himself a better chance of survival. The two pieces show how one boy sacrificed so much in order to free himself and the other coming from less harsh circumstances but understand sacrifices just as well. All to be able to have a better and brighter future.
I had a few of the excerpts that I enjoyed but one of my favorites was Caring Makes Us Human by Troy Chapman. Just the title had me interested because I am someone who cares about other no matter what they have done in their past. This specific excerpt talks about how prisoners started taking care of a cat and felt grace. These prisoners have done some bad things to go to prison yet they can take care of this helpless animal and treat him like a king. Even the guard joined in or enjoyed watching the prisoners just simply talking to each other while petting the cute cat. They are the perfect example of what we should be as humans. Caring for people and things is what makes us human and a lot of people do not understand that yet. Everyone needs
...rest became a nightmare. Enrique’s time apart from his mother made them more like “strangers” than family. Filled with anger stemming from the years apart from one another, he refused to obey his mother’s wishes to live healthier. While lost in family chaos, he turned back to his addiction of drugs crashing his dream of a perfect family dynamic. Though his dream became a nightmare, he was able to achieve it through one core trait where his inner strength help drive him to not give up his dream of seeing his mother. This signifies that if a person is willing to work hard to achieve their dream through diligence, it can be met. Though the outcome may not be what one hoped for, being able to say you accomplished something is soul-pleasing. His success in making it to the U.S. regardless of many downfalls satisfies one missing piece in his broken puzzle of a life.
As a young child, Rodriguez finds comfort and safety in his noisy home full of Spanish sounds. Spanish, is his family's' intimate language that comforts Rodriguez by surrounding him in a web built by the family love and security which is conveyed using the Spanish language. "I recognize you as someone close, like no one outside. You belong with us, in the family, Ricardo.? When the nuns came to the Rodriquez?s house one Saturday morning, the nuns informed the parents that it would be best if they spoke English. Torn with a new since of confusion, his home is turned upside down. His sacred family language, now banished from the home, transforms his web into isolation from his parents. "There was a new silence in the home.? Rodriguez is resentful that it is quiet at the dinner table, or that he can't communicate with his parents about his day as clearly as before. He is heartbroken when he overhears his mother and father speaking Spanish together but suddenly stop when they see Rodriguez. Thi...
	Also Rodriguez feels emptiness, and sadness when his friend informs him that his parents read "Winnie the Pooh" to him every night and young Richard wants to know what it is like (being read to). What made him feel this emptiness or sadness was when his friend mistook his question and told him the plot of the book instead. "My companion, however, thought I wanted to know about the plot of the book." He wants to know what it is like to have educated parents that can read to him but that is not possible.
While we all would agree that racism is immoral and has no place in a modern society, that was not the case in the U.S. in the 1940s. At the time African Americans were treated as second-class citizens, it was made near-impossible for them to vote, and they were discriminated in many ways including in education, socially and in employment. It was a time in which segregation and racism perforated the laws and society, a time in which African Americans were “separate but equal,” segregation was legal and in full force. Apartheid was also everywhere from the books to in society. Blacks were not truly seen as equal as they were seen the the lesser of the two and it very much felt that way. Blacks were oppressed in many ways including having unreachable requirements to vote, such regulations included literacy tests, poll taxes, and elaborate registration systems, but it only started there.
Based on Freire’s essay, “The ‘Banking’ Concept of Education”, there are two types of education styles. We will use these educational styles to look at how they affected Rodriguez’s relationships. The first type is referred to as a “banking” education. In this type of education, information is “deposited” into students by their teachers.
Compassion is a hard emotion to identify. One act of kindness, may not be identified as such. That act of kindness can be seen as an act of pity. Compassion is a really odd thing, as there is no way to really explain compassion to the person looking in. to the one watching, it may look like an act of kindness, of compassion, but does that on looker really know if that action was an action of goodwill or annoyance?
As I see it, a scholarship boy is someone who comes from a working, middle class family, but excels through his intellect, however the education drives him away from parents and family and he finds solace in books. He is someone who learns to achieve academic growth but not the practical uses of the knowledge. Rodrigues explains how this was like a language barrier in between him and his parents. In a way, this aggravated the different worlds Rodriguez and his family were living in. Rodrigues realized that the world his parents were living in, was a one that he did not aim for. I believe he wanted more out from his life. He regretted that he was leaving behind the family life that he cherished; yet he found himself more and more attached and involved in a world that the doors were just about to open for
Cisneros starts the essay by reflecting on an anthology for a work that she wrote where she stated “I am the only daughter in a family of six sons. That explains everything” (Cisneros 366). Right after she introduces herself as how she sees herself now as the statement that she had written she feels does not explain enough about her to the reader. Next, she then goes into her story of how she sees herself and what has made her who she is. This explanation is taken throughout the entire essay as she explains how she got to where she was in her career. Her thesis is that growing up alone in isolation made her work hard to prove herself to her father. The thesis is very obvious in the essay and Cisneros successfully uses proves her thesis as she explains her childhood with her dad in the center of attention. Although others may argue that Cisneros’ relationship affects who she is in a negative way, Cisneros successfully proves the relationship between the two positively affects who she
Even though they probably spent a substantial amount of money on the gifts, Rodriguez's siblings do not seem to care whether or not their family members like their gifts. Additionally, one of the siblings “groans” after somebody asks if anyone wants any refreshments. The person’s groan suggests that they are miserable around their other family members. The siblings should be happy to be celebrating together, but they are more interested in getting back to their personal lives. As the siblings leave the house and head into the dark towards their “expensive foreign cars”, one of them shouts “Don’t come out” at either their mother or father as it is too cold outside. Rodriguez could not tell if the person was addressing his mother or father. The person did not even turn around fully to address them as they were in such a rush to get home. Although they told their parents that it is too cold for them to come outside, the person probably just wanted to leave the home as quickly as possible. In addition, expensive cars are parked in the dark. The image of the cars in the dark associates darkness with
He forms and idea of what he wants to be when he is expelled from college.
Throughout the history of the world, there has been many societies. All these societies had similar structures and ideas, but they all are different by their own special traditions and ways of life. Similarly, both our society and the society in The Giver share similar ideas, but they are different in certain areas. For example, they both celebrate birthdays and have family units, but they have their own way of doing so. Based on the celebration of birthdays and the formation of family units, our society is better than the society in The Giver by Lois Lowry.
In the book Ordinary people by Judith Guest it shows how the book advocates for the therapist by Dr. Berger helping Conrad and his dad, Dr. Berger is there for him at all times, and Dr. Berger stays calm at all times.
To fully comprehend a work you cannot just read it. You must read it, analyze it, question it, and even then question what you are questioning. In Richard Rodriguez’s The Achievement of Desire we are presented with a young Richard Rodriguez and follow him from the start of his education until he is an adult finally having reached his goals. In reference to the way he reads for the majority of his education, it can be said he reads going with the grain, while he reads a large volume of books, the quality of his reading is lacking.