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Summary Of Scholarship Boy By Richard Rodriguez

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Culture is a huge part of people’s lives. They’re born into their race and the cultural history that comes with it. However, there’s always been a certain judgment that comes with the different cultures/races. For example, if someone were to ask, “What is Marcus doing tonight?” The other person may reply with, “Which Marcus? The Spanish Marcus or the Indian Marcus?” Now there’s the whole saying where people argue, “Oh well, I don’t see color.” But the human race as a society, changes their opinion of a person once knowing their race or cultural history. This stereotypical point of view that we see people in bleeds into many parts of society including government, business and academics. How a person is brought up and how they are treated in …show more content…

He illustrates himself in early years as, “ anxious about school.” However, as years went on, Rodriguez became increasingly enamored with school. So much so that he blew off his family life for reading and school work; growing annoyed at their lack of intellect. He started seeing his teachers as his mentors instead of his parents. Rodriguez's main point he tries to draw across from his personal experience is that instead of only focusing efforts on school, that children (who are in the same situation as him) should find a happy medium between school and home life such as bringing the cultural history some kids have to school and growing upon it. In the essay, it seems he regrets that he grew apart from his family during his childhood and this is a piece of literature to tell kids in the same situation as him to accept their culture. Furthermore, in Gerald Graff’s telling of his story, he explains that he shied away from literature and academic work for fear of being bullied not only for being Jewish but being a “nerd”. He recounts, “I drifted by default into the nebulous but conveniently noncommittal territory of the liberal arts.” Later in his life, though, he realized that reading is a conversation and is a lot more involving and exciting than he knew. Nonetheless, there are people in the world, like Barbara Ehrenreich, who think race and culture have no place on

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