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Christmas Narrative Of Rodriguez By Richard Rodriguez

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Rodriguez ends his book with this Christmas narrative to show that being successful can drive families apart, especially between parents and their children. When Rodriguez was a child he was close to his parents and language was the main reason he felt this way. “My parents would say something to me and I would feel embraced by the sounds of their words” (15) His parent’s melodious words would comfort him and remind him his home. His world was based on who was talking and in what language, los gringos English or his family’s Spanish. He was extremely connected to his parents through speech. By the time he has grown up, things are tremendously different, as shown at the Christmas dinner. “He asks if I am going home now too. It is, I realize,
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