Analysis Of ' The Achievement Of Desire ' And Para Teresa By Richard Rodriguez And Inez Avila

Names and nationalities play a large role throughout your life. Esperanza and Maria are examples of this, through the excerpt and poem it is possible to tell that they feel discriminated because of their nationalities. The idea comes from how they react and our treated compared to other students.

Enrique’s journey from Honduras to the U.S. unveils the innate loyalty of a loving child to their mother and presents the dangers that a migrant faces on the road with consistent angst; nevertheless, it supports the idea that compassion shown by some strangers can boost the retreating confidence within a person. In Sonia Nazario’s “Enrique’s Journey,” he seeks the beacon of light that all migrants hope to encounter; “El Norte.” Like many children before him, it is the answer to the problems of a hard life. While being hunted down “like animals” leading to “seven futile attempts,” he is

Many of us are very family oriented and believe that family should always be present in our life no matter what do in life. While some of us feel that, our desire is worth more important than family due to the lack of communication with family members. In the “Achievement of Desire” by Richard Rodriguez, Rodriguez recalls some of the difficulties he had at a young age, which was balancing his life academically and practicing the Mexican traditions. His desire was more important to him than his family because communication with his family was not as strong as before when he began to get more involved in his education, which separates him from his family mentally and physically.

     As a young child, Rodriguez finds comfort and safety in his noisy home full of Spanish sounds. Spanish, is his family's' intimate language that comforts Rodriguez by surrounding him in a web built by the family love and security which is conveyed using

In his essay, “The Achievement of Desire,” Richard Rodriguez informs readers that he was a scholarship boy throughout his educational career. He uses his own personal experiences, as well as Richard Hoggart’s definition of the “scholarship boy,” to describe himself as someone who constantly struggles with balancing his life between family and education, and ends up on the side of education. In recognizing himself as a “scholarship boy,” he shows that he has gained what sociologist C. Wright Mills terms the “sociological imagination,” which “enables its possessor to understand the larger

To fully comprehend a work you cannot just read it. You must read it, analyze it, question it, and even then question what you are questioning. In Richard Rodriguez’s The Achievement of Desire we are presented with a young Richard Rodriguez and follow him from the start of his education until he is an adult finally having reached his goals. In reference to the way he reads for the majority of his education, it can be said he reads going with the grain, while he reads a large volume of books, the quality of his reading is lacking.

In Richard Rodriguez’s “The Achievement of Desire,” he compares himself to author Richard Hoggart’s “scholarship boy,” the type of student anyone can become. The “scholarship boy” is “anxious and eager to learn,” but is overbearing in his ways of learning and conveying knowledge (Rodriguez 534). Born as a son of two Mexican immigrants, Rodriguez quickly detached his life at school from his life at home. Hoggart helped Rodriguez to see near the end of his education exactly how harmful this type of lifestyle would become for Rodriguez’s learning. In my own experience, and specifically in my four years of high school, I tried my best to avoid being a “scholarship boy,” because that would prove detrimental to myself in relationships, my education, and my health and wholeness.

Rodriguez is ashamed. He is ashamed with the fact his espanol is no longer his main language. The author presents, “I grew up a victim to a

Ines Hernandez Avila and Richard Rodriguez were under cultural pressure about what they lived at home and at school. The difference between Rodriguez and Avila was that he was so connected to school that he cut the cordon with his family and lost sense of the little culture that he had before he started school but Avila work so hard, with an incredible resistance that she just wanted to represent her culture and her loved family who always were there for her. They both work very hard but they took different direction because of their personal

In the essay “Aria: Memoir of a Bilingual Child”, author Richard Rodriguez emphasizes the negativity of having bilingual classes implemented into schools, by using ethos to increase his credibility on the subject, repetition to exemplify the intimacy of the Spanish language, and nostalgia to explain the difference between a hospitable and public language.

Yet the struggle of identities continues, the struggle of borders is still our reality. While discussing the rhetorical analysis of this essay I had an epiphany. The purpose of this essay is what troubled me most. Was she just writing to write or was she just a creative writer? After one hour of discussion it hit me, the feelings that me and my class mates where encountering was it. Nearly all of us came into the discussion annoyed and impatient. We were unwilling to analyze the essay because we where enraged by the fact that it was not completely in English. All but a few who understood Spanish where irritated because to the paper was not converted to what we wanted it to be. How dare she write a paper and expect us to read in when it isn’t in perfect complete English. I then discovered that all of our anger and annoyances were her point or purpose. She wanted to make us feel how she felt. Every day she was criticized on how she spoke and wrote. One side wanted only English while the other only wanted Spanish. When in reality she knew both therefore wanted to use both intermittently. Every time she was corrected she was annoyed and discourage. As each and every one of us read the paper we were all annoyed by the fact that it wasn’t in the language we wanted. We thought that because

In Rodriguez’s essay “Achievement of Desire”, Rodriguez makes a conclusion to his own life with all the experience he have. In the last part, he mentions “If, because of my schooling I had grown culturally separate from my parents, my education finally had given me ways of speaking and caring about that fact” (pg. 560). Which means that his gave him the ways to how education separates him with his family. This is indeed the main focus of the essay. First, it is the separation of his family his deep down feelings. Second, is what he feels regarding to his family and the way that he is not proud of his family and parents. Third, is when he sees what sacrifices he has done in order to be at the place he is right not and what he has gained from those sacrifices.

In the passage from “Under the Feet of Jesus”, Helena Maria Viramontes utilizes elements such as figurative language and selection of detail to document and analyze the development of Estrella’s character throughout the text. The perplexity and distress she feels in school is evident until she matures by the end of the excerpt demonstrating her newly acquired potential and confidence. These elements demonstrate how an impoverished immigrant like Estrella learns and realizes to understand critical, essential aspects and use this to rise above her struggles and be up to par to the teacher’s expectations who deemed her unworthy. Her relationship with Perfecto Flores and his toolbox helps to guide her to acknowledge the everlasting and infinite value of education and its significance.

I come from a Latino background, as both of my parents came to the United States with hopes of having a better life, which was to achieve the “American Dream”and start a family and have me their son, attend school along with my two other siblings and have ourselves a career. So we won't struggle with our life the way they did growing up. My father went to school here in the U.S up until his junior year when he found himself a job and chose to discontinue attending school. My mom didn't attend school like my father did, she immediately began working. I came into play a year after my parents had gotten married. I was raised to be the best person I can become and have myself a successful career ahead of me.Having strict parents played a huge role on how I performed in school if they received bad comments of me la chancla y el cinturon; their sandal and belt would be waiting for me.When it came to school, as a kid in elementary I was always about getting good grades, trying to become the smartest student in class. I would constantly receive positive comments on how good my math skills were and many times receiving the highest test scores in my class.The annual assembly for results of how well one did on their CST;“California Standards Test”, I was awarded with two awards for both the english and math portions of the test.I was presented with the awards throughout all my years in elementary.

In the excerpt from The Hunger of Memory, Rodriguez discusses how he became assimilated into the American education system. His family raised him in a Spanish-speaking home, and he learned to speak English at the age of six. In this personal narrative, Rodriguez explains his feelings of no longer having a connection to his parents, who were immigrants, and his Mexican culture, in which he