Summary Of The Achievement Of Desire By Richard Rodriguez

According to Richard Rodriguez, author of “The Achievement of Desire”, talks about a student who always reads books and top of his class. He rather than spends time with family or friends he uses time to read books. So, he called “scholarship boy”. He always would stack up with books and when he was supposed to be sleep or playing outside with friends, his mom would always find him reading. The scholarship boy reaches a point that he cannot admire his parents anymore because he was embarrassed at his parent of lack of education. The schools want him become a machine that memorize textbooks and spits out word for word. That causes students become smarter, but they are not able to come up with their own thoughts.
Gerald Graff, author of “Disliking books at an early age”, talks about a little boy who does not read for school and dislike reading. The author uses an excuse as a fear of bullied in school and a fact that he got raised
Then students only taught by teaching by rote can cause not only unable to think by themselves, but also, they lack self-confidence. By reading this story I felt that I became one of the studying machine. When I first read the story “Disliking books at an early age” by Gerald Graff was looking myself inside in the story. Personally, I do not find books to read in my spare time and only read books if there is homework in school or humorous comic books. However, this book gave me confidence that I am capable of someone who really enjoy the reading and become an active reader. I need to find a interesting subject to read in a library for example fiction, non-fiction, or scientific fiction, etc. or try to make effective stand points what other people are saying. Therefore, Graff gave me a hope that I can be a