Compare And Contrast Mccarthy And Richard Rodriguez

While reading both McCarthy’s and Richard Rodriguez’s writing, you can see that despite being two very different documents(where McCarthy writes about a student named Dave and Rodriguez writes about his past), they are essentially relating the same information. Neither Rodriguez nor Dave were able to transfer skills between their classes(being able to bring one skill that they learned in a class and bring it to another class), being that Dave was a concrete learner that had difficulty conceptualising subjects, and Rodriguez was someone that only learned things that were taught to him (either by his teachers or through his readings). However, both the format of the two essays, the personalities, and lives of Dave and Rodriguez were vastly different

These groups helped him express his own ideas while also allowing him to see other people's ideas and let those help him build of his. While in this class however he did not transfers his skills from one to the other. Dave did not understand that even though the teachers were asking for two different things (Comp asking for summaries and Biology asking for Lab reports) they were actually the same

Rodriguez was a “good student” he may have even been known as the “model student”. However he never had a real idea or opinion of his own. He only knew what the books he read told him. Rodriguez could “understand” everything he was taught and every he read, but he never knew why he was reading or what they meant to him(so he never really understood what it was). Ultimately Rodriguez was a “good student” that could “understand” the material on a academic bases to get the grade but, could not understand the material in life and how it could affect him and what it meant to him. This comes back to me where I would get good grades and I would be able to pass the class but that was it. I did not fully understand the material I just knew what I needed to pass it and be able to be the “good student” that colleges and businesses look for. After looking back on this, I like Rodriguez realized that there might be more to life than just getting grades and making the schools and businesses