Anny Rodriguez English 1A Dr. Hull Taylor February 12th, 2016 Paper 1: Summary and Analysis Based on Personal Experience In Richard Rodriguez 's “The Achievement of Desire” essay, we learn the difficult issues he endured in his educational journey. Rodriguez found himself living in two worlds, life at school and life at home.
Rodriguez shows in this quote that he wants knowledge to steer him towards his future, his success, his achievement in desire. There was a statement within Rodriguez’s essay that immediately reminded me of Freire, Rodriguez states “He has used education to remake himself (Rodriguez)” (Rodriguez, 528).
Hunger of Memory. Richard Rodriguez in chapter 2 of his book “Hunger of Memory” speaks and analyses his own life. How from an early age he came to understand the changes that occurred inside him. He mainly refers to his experiences in school, opposed to the ones he had at home. Son of Mexican immigrants, Rodriguez was a working-class child.
Reading Respond of the Achievement of Desire. Reading response for The Achievement of Desire Richard Rodriguez is a mirror makes readers look back their education experience and family relationship. Rodriguez was chasing the end of education for a long time until he wrote this essay and read Richard Hoggart's book.
In “The Achievement of Desire,” one of the essays in this book, Richard Rodriguez tells the story of his education, of how he was drawn to imitate his teachers because of his desire to think and speak like them. His is not a simple story of hard work and success, however. In a sense, Rodriguez’s education gave him what he.