Rodriguez and Hoggart’s opinions of a “scholarship boy” are very in many ways yet contain underlying differences due to the fact that they both have their own unique opinion. Rodriguez generalizes by speaking in third person about the “scholarship boy” you can see the relationship between his overall ideas and his personal experience. He introduces Hoggart by providing a quote that states, “Perhaps as early as the night he brings home an assignment from school and finds the house too noisy for study” (548). A large quote is introduced and it almost seems as if there is no outside point of view being taken in. Rather, just an indented version of Rodriguez’s thoughts on the matter.
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Rodriguez begins his life as Spanish speaker at home and an English speaker in public. A profound change occurs in his life after the nuns from his school visit his parents. They insist that English be spoken at home. He writes, “The moment after the
Rodriguez’s attitude towards his family and himself can be described as caring, looking out for each other, and loving. The Rodriguez family based on this passage can be shown as a caring family. “Daddy shouldn’t be outside. Here take this jacket out to him.”
The Fulfilment of Desire In the novella, Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton, the theme of desire is the most prominent throughout the book. The book focuses on the love and desire that Ethan Frome has for his wife’s relative, Mattie Silver. The fulfilment of desire plays not only a key role in Ethan Frome but also in society. In society, we often desire people or things that we can not obtain.
How is this purpose conveyed? The audience for this piece are people who are interested in Rodriguez’s childhood and education and seeing how scholarship children can become successful. The writer’s purpose is to explain why and how he became a scholarship and academically successful in a bilingual household with the family’s main focus on Spanish. This purpose is shown as the writer takes the reader on a journey through his childhood.
Basing on this perspective the two groups discussed have a different opinion about achievement. It is clear that regardless of the challenges and the brothers regard themselves as they have the power to defeat all challenges and male it in life through education and the constructive activities. On the contrary, the Hallways are hopeless and have no vision that they will make it life. It is precise that the structural barriers hinder the brothers and the Hallways from pulling themselves out of poverty. Close analysis of the events in the book, in my consent hard work in life, is important but factors like race, sex affect the success of an individual in future.
Rodriguez’s education pushed him away from his private life, however the intimacy was still there. Rodriguez still loved and cherished his family values unconditionally. Rodriguez figured out that “Intimacy is not created by a particular language; it is created by intimates” (32). Rodriguez noted that that the greatest changes in his was mostly of language. On the contrary, Hoggart described that the ‘scholarship boy’ came to forget about his family life.
(page 91) This quote substantiates that
Two Peas in a Pod In Richard Rodriguez’s narrative “The Achievement of Desire”, he made an instant connection while reading a book by Richard Hoggart . He made connections with this young Hispanic boy on all types of things/for instance his ethnicity, desire to learn and idolizing his teachers. The young boys and Rodríguez’s problems are some I have faced in my childhood as well. Most of these pushed me to be great the same way it did Rodriguez. The connect I had with the author while just reading the first few paragraphs was truly unrealistic.
Rodriguez includes a quote from Hogart’s book about the scholarship boy, "feels himself weighted with knowledge of his own and class situation, which hereafter forbids him the simpler pleasures of his mother and father" (Hogart 246). Then he expresses the lack of community and the problems in his family by saying "My parents and I sat in the kitchen for a conversation. But, lacking the same words to develop our sentences and to shape our interests, what was there to say?" (Rodriguez
For example he states in chapter 3, “Everyone suspects himself of at
In Richard Rodriguez’s essay, “The Achievement of Desire” he brings you through important memories of his life that impacted his education, and more specifically his reading and writing. As a child, he was eager to learn and ready to soak up all the knowledge he could get. He received many awards and good feedback from his teachers which gave him all the more motivation to learn more. Soon his motivation came out of annoyance of his parents.
