“If you just find one book that you really love, you will love reading forever. I promise.” This is Stephanie Whipple’s saying t on growing a new attitude toward reading. Stephanie tells a story about how her passion for writing she possesses today didn’t always exist. She gives examples of negative experiences she has had with writing and explains how they are were at one point responsible for her distaste in the activity. The cause of her changed mind set was in result of a single good experience she had with the previously thought to of been “miserable” activity, hence the name “One great book”.…
Second, the relationships the authors had with their teachers were different. Rodriguez’s relationship with his teachers was one that really helped him succeed. Rodriguez’s teachers were dedicated to him and wanted to give him all the information he asked. Richard took advantage of his teacher’s knowledge by always asking questions. He…
When the author was a young man he wasn’t able to relate to any assigned readings to his life and once n college often found reading to be agonizing and foreign. He frequently failed to finish famous classics…
In the short story, Daughter of Invention, the author Julia Alvarez also uses books and writing to help her succeed and “save her life”. When her family comes to America, she does very well in school, and she is asked to write a speech for a school assembly. When she is finally able to write the speech, her father fears her teachers will find her words disrespectful and destroys her speech. Her mother, who loves to invent, helps her write a new speech and also helps her begin her career as a writer. The two authors’ stories are similar that without the influence of books, reading and writing in their childhoods, their lives as adults would be drastically different than what they are now.…
Richard Rodriguez, on the other hand, was a child who was born 150 years later in a Spanish speaking family. In his essay "The Lonely, Good Company of Books", Rodriguez narrates his learning experience and explains how he started learning from reading books.…
Books can cast a strange spell over you. It’s the intimacy of being let into such details of a character’s feelings and being that draws you to read The fluency of the writing and the drama, heroism, and intrigue exhibited by the characters can almost be too much for a person. The pure power of literature sometimes wont allow you to set the book aside and leave the characters life. The attraction and attachment of humans to fictional characters through reading is seen in the poem “The Reader” by Richard Wilbur and an excerpt from the short story “A General in the Library” by Italo Calvino.…
In the essay “Achievement of Desire”, author Richard Rodriguez, describes the difficulties balancing life in the academic world and the life of a working class family. As a child Rodriguez was the exception to the stereotypical student coming from a working class family. He was always top of his class, and rather than spending his time out with friends or with his family he spent his time with books and notes. Initially this approach makes Rodriguez stand out as an exceptional student, but as time goes on he becomes an outsider both at home and in school. “Achievement of Desire” chronicles the not-so-typical education of a young boy from a working class family.…
In Richard Rodriguez’s composition of essays,” Hunger of memory” he made clear on what he had done in order to succeed in life, some of those were to relinquish valuable fragments that were offered by the loved ones that raised him, "A primary reason for my success in the classroom was that I couldn't forget that schooling was changing me and separating me from the life I enjoyed before becoming a student."-Richard Rodriguez. he also refers to his language as being a private language not spoken to others in his native tongue, he also shares with us on how his education affected his life, and also how it affected his cultural heritage he also states that there was a point in life were he realized that his education itself helped him grow from his childhood to his adulthood.…
"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…
In the thousands of years of humanity’s existence, literature has shaped the ideas and ambitions of cultures, countries, and individuals. Literature has connected people all across the world, and has provided an outlet for many to express their opinions and beliefs with the world around them. Latin America holds testament to these ideas, and has given rise to some of the most prominent authors around the world. Gabriel Gracía Márquez, author of Light Is Like Water, and Julio Cortázar, author of Continuity of Parks, are incredible examples of how literature has influenced their own lives, and in return, shaped the lives of others. They believe that their ideas and opinions hold value, and thus influence on the lives of those around them.…
book, magazine, newspaper or online. If you carry a poem in your wallet and you look at it once a year, we count you. If you have just finished Thomas Mann’s Buddenbrooks in German for the third time, or you’ve read one page of a Harlequin Romance and given up because it’s too hard, we count you as equals. We are very egalitarian! What you see for the first time in American history is that less than half of the U.S. adult American population is reading literature. I’m going to talk about what the causes of the problem are, and then I’ll talk about the consequences and the solutions. To go into the data a little big further, we see that we’re producing the first generation of educated people, in some cases college graduates, who no longer become lifelong readers. This is disturbing for reasons above and…
Throughout my life, reading and writing have impacted me in a negative and a positive way. My passion for both reading and writing did not begin similarly to that of my peers in elementary school; however, as time goes on, I began to fall in love with other people’s works in literature. Starting off in elementary school, and progressing through middle school, I was not fond of the concept of reading, but I was able to shift my mind in high school by discovering the books I was passionate about. To start off, my journey begins in elementary school.…
Rodriguez made it clear that he was emotionally disconnected from the books he read even though he continued to read more and more. Growing up as a student it is very hard to relate to books that most of the time has nothing to do with what’s going on in one’s life. Even though that is the case for many students’ teachers still encourage reading because they feel over time one’s outlook will change. That’s not the case for most students’. Rodriguez describes how a nun that helped him with reading would always say, “A book could open doors for him. It could introduce him to people and show him places he never imagined existed,” (173) but that is an opinion that doesn’t apply to everyone that reads. Most students’ can’t get all of the benefits out of reading therefore making it not an affective educational tool.…
Born in 1944 in San Francisco, California, Richard Rodriguez grew up in a home in which Spanish was the first language; consequently, like millions of Americans he learned English as his second language. As a child, Rodriguez experienced an oftimes painful struggle to master English, which he calls his “public” language. As an adult, he attended Stanford University in California and Columbia University in New York, following which he did graduate work at the Warburg Institute in London and the University of California at Berkeley. Best known as a writer and lecturer, Rodriguez currently lives in San Francisco.…
Last week, our Preliminary exams in different subjects took place. Our subjects are Domestic Tourism, Tourism Planning and Development, Finance 1, Statistics 1, Christian Living 3, P.E. 3, English 2, Tourism Marketing, ESL 3, and Filipino 2. We are supposed to study well to pass each exam that’s why, we did our part to do our best.…