Scholarship Boy Richard Rodriguez Analysis

The autobiography “Scholarship Boy” by Richard Rodriguez is the story of overcoming the difficulties of keeping school and home life balanced. A scholarship boy, a boy who comes from a working class family and thrusts himself into the schools environment more than anything else, which is exactly what Richard Rodriguez was and is. The story talks about a young boy from working class family who entered school “barely able to speak English” who takes on school as a method of separating himself from the parents who’s “lack of education” embarrass him, and who “took for granted their enormous lack of education”. Rodriguez talks about how his mother was “a new girl to America [she] had been awarded a high school diploma by teachers to busy or careless