through many eons‚ have produced many children. They‚ the children‚ in reference to languages that have come and gone‚ have been both ugly and beautiful… but beauty is in the eye of the beholder‚ or “ear” in this case. In the memoir Aria‚ by Richard Rodriguez‚ he boldly argues that one must choose the “public” language so as to belong‚ or be part of‚ or be accepted and be able to find your true identity. I have to agree to some degree‚ for I find if you are not part of the “public” language it’s like
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Thesis:-learning English as a "language" gave Richard a confidence in public identity but he lost his native identity. Representative Example: - "The loss implies the gain: The house I returned to each afternoon was quiet. Intimate sounds no longer rushed to the door to great me. There were other noises inside. The telephone rang. Neighborhood kids ran past the bedroom where I was reading my schoolbooks-covered with shopping-bag paper. Once I learned public language‚ it would never again be easy
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Families grows apart ‚bonds are weakened ‚ love is extinguished.Then all that’s left is a worthless need for materialistic things. Rodriguez’ relationship with his family is described as exactly that‚ a relationship with none of that warmth that is associated with the word‚ it has none of the love. Instead of a loving family Rodriguez’ family is the consumerist type of family. The type of family that does not give significance to the word family. Christmas a day of giving and recieving
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relate closely to Richard Rodriguez in “The Achievement Desire” because he faced many struggles that I too faced as a young girl. My parents always pressured me to work hard at school‚ I was always suppose to have my homework for Monday done by Friday night‚ which made me so mad at my parents. Just like Rodriguez was furious at his parents for forcing him into English classes‚ which started his separation from his parents. “The Achievement Desire” written by Richard Rodriguez is a story of a man
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Struggle is Progress Frederick Douglas one said‚ “If there is no struggle there is no progress”. Douglas is expressing how people have to go through a lot of hard work. People have to get through obstacles to move forward with their life starting with school‚ tragedies‚ jobs and other things to achieve their goals. Certain people don’t get through things as easy as others so it’s a harder struggle but if you keep moving forward and doing what is best to stay on track you will get progress and be
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In Richard Rodriguez’s story "Complexion‚" he solves the conflict between his brown skin color and his own identity. Rodriguez had accepted who he is and was no longer concerned about his brown skin color and facial features that identify him as a working class Mexican. He stated that his skin color means nothing to his identity because Rodriguez realizes his skin color does not label him "disadvantaged" in life (148). Rodriguez’s real identity separates himself from the Mexican workers. He tells
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Desire In his writing‚ Richard Rodriguez describes himself as a “scholarship boy”‚ a label he read about in Hoggart’s book‚ The Uses of Literacy. His description of himself and Hoggart’s description of a scholarship boy do seem to align with each other in various ways‚ which Rodriguez points out in his essay. He gives block quotes from Hoggart’s book and then relates those quotes to his own life to show the reader just how much the two descriptions align with each other. Rodriguez uses Hoggart’s book
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The different between super man and me and The narrative of the life of Frederick Douglas story is. Super man and me talks about comic book according to the text line 1‚2‚3 show I can not recall which particular super man. Comic book I read nor can I remember which villain he fought in that issue .Paragraph 4 states that each panel complete with picture dialogue and narrative was a three dimensional paragraph. Super suit was red‚ blue and yellow. The brown door shatters. In to many pieces the narrative
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blacks. Frederick Douglass‚ a slave until he ran away‚ was consistently dissuaded for trying to learn and educate himself. He was beat down by the white supremacists for standing up for his beliefs‚ but he was also encouraged by others to achieve his dream. When Frederick Douglass was separated from his mother when he was a mere infant‚ to hinder the affection he might have for his mother. She died when he was seven years old‚ but was not allowed to be present during her death or burial. Douglas points
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helped shape American culture and identity by bringing diversity and challenging assimilation. Immigrants have helped shaped American culture by bringing diversity. In the essay “ ‘Blaxicans’ and Other Reinvented Americans” by Richard Rodriguez‚ Rodriguez mentions that immigrants bring many
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