1. The Achievement of Desire by Richard Rodriquez
... to [himself] the educational value of books "(526). As we see here, Rodriguez was not simply reading his books mindlessly, or just reading each word without thinking. Rather, he was putting effort into getting a deeper understanding of each book, but found the themes useless or inapplicable to his life. As he read Robinson Crusoe, for example, he knew that the main theme or lesson ... of the story was "the value of learning by oneself"(526), but did not actually learn anything by taking the theme and relating it to his own life and situation. We see that ... Rodriguez was trying very h...
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