Richard Rodriguez is a Mexican-American or a "chicano" as he says others called him sometimes. This book tells about his life growing up in America, and it tells a lot about the discrimination he dealt with growing up. He started school in America with a very small English vocabulary which made it especially hard on him and his family too. His siblings and his parents all had to learn English when they arrived in America. It was a little harder for Richard because he was the youngest, but he still picked it up really quickly. His parents never wanted him to do menial jobs as other Mexican-Ame...

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• Grade Level: High School

The Desire to Achieve in Rodriguez's "The Achievement of Desire" "To accomplish great things, we must dream as well as act." - Anatole France According to Malcolm Forbes "Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one." In his book "Hunger of Memory", Rodriguez tells the story of his education, an education with its ups and downs. He says "education is not an inevitable or natural ... step in growing up". Rodriguez may have been a successful student, but, as he realized, his academic success contributed to his alienation from ... to his desire to acquire as much knowledge a...

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• Grade Level: High School