Hunger Of Memory: A Literary Analysis

It’s interesting to see how author’s uses many different literary devices to convey his or her messages towards an audience. And if used properly, it’ll help readers appreciate, understand, and analyze the true main idea of the literary work provided. To add on, we as readers are able to identify what type of an individual an author is, due to their choice of writing style. Some good examples of authors that supplies such ideas are Gary Soto in Fear, Lynda Barry in Common Scents, Amy Tan in Mother’s Tongue and Richard Rodriguez in Hunger of Memory. Each of this individuals have created different forms of writings, however applies somewhat of a similar literary devices that reveals who they are as a person.
First, we have Gary Soto a writer …show more content…
Some strong symbolisms used in her work was “proper English” whenever this term is used it symbolizes Tan’s acceptance towards the American way of living and the separation from her mother and their culture. However, when the term “simple English” is used, it symbolizes the attachment between Tan and her family. With this symbolism, it depicts the author as an individual who is in between two worlds with two forms of English. It also establishes how it significantly affected her growing up and her adult life. To add on, Tan also implemented dialogues into her story. An example would be, “ The talk was going along well enough, until I remembered one major difference that made the whole talk sound.” With that being stated, it shows what Tan was thinking while speaking. Describing that it was weird due to the fact that her mother was in the room with her, and that she only spoke broken English, while Tan was discussing using proper English and it’s probably her mother’s first time hearing her that way. Therefore, Tan depicted her life; while using symbolism and dialogue to put emphasize on the clash between her heritage and the American custom.This reveals that Amy Tan is a person who always loved language and how she uses both type of English in her career. Additionally, a similar story that relates with culture and …show more content…
He goes in depth by using his success as an example that it's unnecessary for a person of color to need assistance in order to thrive. A good example of an inner dialogue by Rodriguez is “Several essays. I have argued particularly against government programs- affirmative action and bilingual education.” This was said after being mentioned that he has written about contemporary education. Therefore, shows the internal thinking of the author and how he actually feels versus on what he says towards the matter. He then follows it up by “I have become notorious among certain leaders of America’s Ethnic left. I am considered a dupe, an ass, the fool- Tom Brown, the brown Uncle Tom.”This demonstrates that Rodriguez is aware not everyone agrees with his ideas, and although his being criticized for it, he still headstrong towards his believes. To conclude, Rodriguez’s language portrays him as an adamant person, who solely believe that minorities do not need help from programs such as affirmative actions and bilingual education in order for this group of people to