Richard Rodriguez’s life from his youth to adulthood is one of struggle of trying to understand who he is and what education does to young people. I always thought that all parents would be 100% supportive of their children, especially in poor blue collar working family’s. In my family my Uncle side of the family was just about all tradesman’s working with their hands, which their is absolutely nothing wrong with being a blue collar worker. However the entire family looked up to my Uncle as the pinnical of the American dream, being the first to go college. It was noticeable in the amount of income that my uncle made. But he never flaunted it. Rodriguez piece opened my eyes to the idea that education can separate family . The idea that Richard read for pleasure instead out of necessity like his parents was alien to be because my parents always encouraged me to read as much as I could.It never crossed my mind for parents to subconsciously put down the reading process
society. Although the latter seemed to be a negative aspect of his will
to succeed; Rodriguez’s parents wished him to achieve success better
than they did in America. In due time, Rodriguez’s ambition finally
pushed him as a . Rodriguez also worked hard to educate himself by reading an incredible
amount of books, while also being pushed by his parent’s lack of full
assimilation to Americanscholarship student to achieve the success of a controversial author on such provocative topics as Affirmative Action and Bilingual Education.
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