The Importance Of Private Language In Richard Rodriguez's Hunger Of Memory

Migrants are people that migrate from different parts of the country to another. This decision is based on political conflicts, religion, economy, industrialization, and much more. A migrant migrates to a new country looking for peace, and most significantly a better future for their children, wives, and themselves. Education is a major component of which migrants leave their homelands. Receiving an education can make you a somebody in the world. As a child of a migrant you’re told to go to school, study hard, learn the language, and engulf yourself in the new culture, because it is now apart of your identity. In Richard Rodriguez’s autobiography Hunger of Memory and the film The Class directed by Laurent Cantet both develop a theme that a …show more content…
They had to walk to walk the streets of an unknown country and learn to accept it as their new forever home. They walked the streets hearing a different “private language”, comprehending it is their new language now, not just the “public language” they used to hear and be fascinated with and how the people spoke it so effortlessly and skillfully, but now that “public language” will be opening pathways to university, jobs, a future for themselves and their families. The importance of learning a language is to make your parents proud by allowing them to witness their son or daughter go achieve an education they as kids strived to gain, but due to circumstances were never approachable. Through their children parents can live their triumph as if it were their own, however in a sense it is. Their parents were their supporters, the one that gave them the push to continue and go to school, to display themselves to their children as the type of persona they don’t want them to be, they want them to have education, a house, be economically supported without having dead end jobs, or not know if tomorrow there will be food on the table. Through both the film The Class and Hunger of Memory the key concept is that if you don’t struggle, you don’t learn, if you don’t learn you won’t succeed. Being discriminated against, judged, entangled into the new “public language” are factors in a migrant's life that encourages to thrive and meet the goals. Hunger of Memory and The Class are testimonials of migrants, testimonials that education can be hard at first due to the promised of maintaining the “private language” and with it try to go around society's expectations, but their comes the time when you have to choose “public language” and accept it as a means to help education be easier, but the “private