be maintained between home life and a successful educational life? 6. How does Rodriguez feel about his parents‚ and the role they have played in his life? In his essay "The Achievement of Desire‚" Richard Rodriguez writes about his experiences as a student. While writing about his education Rodriguez makes several points out of an abstract personality model. Originally conceived by the author Richard Hoggart‚ Rodriguez identifies with "the scholarship boy" and in detail relates his experiences
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Richard Rodriguez’s “The Achievement of Desire” A middle class Spanish boy from Sacramento‚ who calls himself the “scholarship boy”‚ overcame a whirlwind of emotions‚ decision and regrets in trying to become an educated man. He looked to his teachers as his parent figures‚ mimicking and idolizing them. To him education was imitation. He became very puzzling to his family because he wanted to change who he was by trying to cover all trace of his Spanish heritage and soon even lost his accent. He
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Richard Rodriguez’s essay “The Achievement of Desire” can be described as an autobiographical text in which the author includes some self analysis in comparison to what he describes as the only description of “myself”(Rodriguez p.547): The Uses of Literacy by Richard Hoggart. What Rodriguez is doing by writing this essay is to add further notion of the “scholarship boy syndrome” for future scholarship boys. His motif for doing this could be to make the reader reflect on the advantages and disadvantages
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AFTERWARDS From the essay The Achievement of Desire by Richard Rodriguez what Rodriguez had experienced help him pointed out the fact that cultural difference separates him from his family but later‚ education helped him realized the separation and the valuable thing he had missed in life‚ his family. Rodriguez had a hard time adjusting with his family in his early days due to the culture difference between home and school. The separation made him regret in life at some point and tried to made up for
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requiring and what they wanted to hear‚ so I guess one could say that I am a scholarship boy (or girl?). In Richard Rodriguez’‚ “The Achievement of Desire‚” he looks back on his childhood and realizes that he was so enthralled in school that he wasted his childhood. Rodriguez wasn’t always so enthralled in school‚ when he was in the second grade‚ he didn’t see the point of going to school‚ but his mom made him continue to go to school even though he didn’t want to. Rodriguez’s parents made him continue
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simply ’deposited’ information into the minds of their students - "education thus becomes an act of depositing (information)‚ in which the students are the depositories and the teacher is the depositor." (Freire 318) In his essay ’The Achievement of Desire’‚ author Richard Rodriguez categorizes himself under Hoggarts definition of a ’scholarship boy’ who according to Hoggart "must move between environments‚ his home and the classroom‚ which are cultural extremes‚ opposed." (Rodriguez 517) As
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Writing Sample: Main Points Throughout reading the article on “Studies Explore Whether the Internet Makes Students Better Writers” by Josh Keller‚ there are a few points to pick up on. The first point being made is that some scholars say that students no a days have a more enhanced skill for writing. In other cases some are saying‚ by using online blogs and/or tweeting can cause a student to form bad writing habits and become less efficient in a classroom setting. A second point that’s made in the
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introduction that informs readers of the point of the entire essay • Unified and coherent paragraphs • Sustained development of that thesis without digressions Open-form prose consists of • No reduction to a single‚ summarizable thesis • The use of story or narrative as an organizing principle through which a point emerges suggestively • Focus of open-form prose is more like a theme in fiction The thesis statement is the main point a writer wants to make in an essay
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While reading “Achievement of Desire”‚ I came across the idea that the self hated that Rodriguez and I felt is not innate. Someone is teaching us‚ people of color‚ that our accent‚ parents‚ origin is wrong and only by assimilation and conforming to a Eurocentric idea of professional will we become accepted. In the media‚ especially growing up I saw professional individuals of color as exceptions to the rule‚ however an abundance of white professionals. Growing up‚ all the professionals that I had
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Reading response for The Achievement of Desire Richard Rodriguez is a mirror makes readers look back their education experience and family relationship. Rodriguez was chasing the end of education for a long time until he wrote this essay and read Richard Hoggart’s book. He is trying to make a tight combination of education‚ family and growth process. For his argument of the end of education‚ readers always misunderstand the end is one kind of academic success. But compare with author’s essay
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