Summary Of The Achievement Of Desire By Richard Rodriguez

Rodriguez Uses of Literacy I feel as if Richard Rodriguez is so lost in the Hoggarts’ text he becomes both the reader and writer .He is using literacy so often that it seem like Rodriguez is actually the one writing the "The Achievement of Desire." While reading, Rodriguez discovered Hoggart’s book that defined his own life. It was evident Rodriquez wasn’t the only one struggling with the scholarship boy role. But the great thing about Rodriguez throughout the text he realized how much he engulfed himself into being a scholarship boy; and how much he missed out with his family and life. That through reading Hoggart text he learned about himself and made some decisions to change. Hoggart painted a perfect picture of the scholarship
"I left the reading room and the circle of faces. I came home... I spent three summer months living with my mother and father, relieved by how easy it was to be home" (638). The scholarship boy had a tremendously difficult time communicating with his parents just as Rodriguez did. While reading Hoggart texts of a scholarship boy. I believe that it sent Rodriguez into a crucial awareness and enabled him to apprehend himself better.Rodriguez understood that he needed to return to his roots that he had abandoned in his search for knowledge, only after realizing what he had become. If he had not read Hoggart's book, he might not have ever figured out how to improve himself. Again, Rodriguez's ability to grow came from his reading of Hoggart's text….(pg 563) It would require many more years of schooling (an evitable mis-education) in which came to trust the silence of reading and the habit of abstracting from immediate experiences—moving away from a life of closeness and immediacy I remembered with my parents, growing older—before o turned unafraid to desire the past and thereby achieved what had eluded me for so long—the end of