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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Essay #1 "The Achievement of Desire" is an autobiography about Mr. Richard Rodriguez. In this autobiography the story of the conflicts the “scholarship boy” had with his school life and home life. As he continued his education into a Graduate degree‚ he starts not thinking too highly of the education his parents have. He started to feel embarrassed by his parents because they didn’t have much education. Rodriguez then started to distance himself from his family and pursued his educational goals
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CULTURAL SEPERATION IN PERSUING EDUCATION AND THE RESULT ON WHAT HAD GAINED 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
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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 the son of a Mexican immigrant studying in the United States‚ Rodriguez was exposed to the ideals and the thought process that western education promoted in
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began to write just enough for what my teachers were 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
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By the end of the “Achievement” chapter‚ Rodriguez has some very profound things to say about his views on educational reform and personal evolution. The things that he says in the ending pages of the chapter do not really seem like they are the tale of a “happy ending” but more so‚ a large pun or an ironic statement made about how our desires entail such influential consequences. On pages 72-73‚ Rodriguez basically states that education is a tough process‚ a changing process even‚ and if one wants
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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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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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Chapters 1‚ 2 and 5 [pages 99-104] Notes from The Allyn & Bacon Guide to Writing Closed-form writing consists of • An explicit thesis in the 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
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