An interesting exercise...
...type "Richard Rodriguez" (use the quotation marks) into the search space at the upper left corner of the main blog page, and click on "search all blogs." Other people are writing about him, too, from a number of persepectives.
Have a great weekend,
ProfC
Have a great weekend,
ProfC
posted by wordperson at 10:33 AM
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Rodriguez’s schooling was much different than mine. His parents were immigrants to the U.S, and they were never able to get a good education or job. His mother was given a high School diploma out of pure laziness by her teachers(she could barely speak English). From there she taught herself how to type, and began a career as a typists for various companies. His father came over to the U.S after leaving his apprentice job with his uncle. Never receiving and education, he only found work as a janitor and other odd, low paying jobs.
In the story R.R states “The boy who first entered a classroom barely able to speak English, twenty years later concluded his studies in a stately, quiet room in the British museum.” In this once sentenced he summed up what his whole schooling career was like. He went through an enormous transformation. Throughout the story, he repeats how he has a fascination with schooling, reading, and learning. This is supported with the story of the “scholarship boy.”
R.R spent almost all of his younger years in the library, reading and indulging in books, “memorizing” characters, plots, and themes, however, he never actually “learned” from these books. Unlike him, him, I don’t fancy school as much as he does. It is my belief that he realized that in order to live a fulfilling life, he needed an awesome education. He saw, either consciously, or subconsciously, that his parents, without an education, didn’t make much of themselves. (Don’t get me wrong, I’m not bashing his parents for being dumb. They were hard working people that loved there son, its just that because they didn’t get an education, they couldn’t get good jobs.) So he knew that he needed to get a good education in order to succeed, which he ultimately did
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