How We Learn to Enjoy Learning
Richard Rodriguez is a famous American author, born in 1944. Instead of pursuing a career in teaching how to write, he became a freelance writer. His first well-known book is Hunger of Memory: The Education of Richard Rodriguez (1982). In this he goes over how he didn’t always love books. His essay is about the beginning of his experiences in reading and the steps he took to progress from disliking reading to making reading the joy of his life. His writing doesn’t only apply to reading, but can be extended to other forms of learning. He displays that once a person gets past the first few levels of reading it can become a joy to their lives. In his essay the lonely, good company of books, Richard Rodriguez (1982) brings to life his journey from his dislike for books to when he learned to enjoy reading.
Richard Rodriguez starts off his story writing about how his parents used reading to complete taxes and read to get news about faraway family members and other required reading. He talked about how his parents read out of necessity and did not spend a lot of time on it. His parents told him that he …show more content…
What did he see in books? Rodriguez clarifies that he knew that books were essential for his success in school; but was there something else gained? Rodriguez shows what he did to get more out of books. He started writing down the major ideas and themes that came from the books he was reading. Rodriguez gives two examples. When he read Robinson Crusoe, he found the theme of the book to be “the value of learning to live by oneself” (229). Also, when he finished Withering Heights, he noted that one must keep a hold of their feelings. Rodriguez explains that he was still in the mindset that books were only for education, and that these values and themes he wrote about did not really make sense to him on how they were important. He wrote them down so what he could describe the educational value of the
Richard Rodriguez is a famous American author, born in 1944. Instead of pursuing a career in teaching how to write, he became a freelance writer. His first well-known book is Hunger of Memory: The Education of Richard Rodriguez (1982). In this he goes over how he didn’t always love books. His essay is about the beginning of his experiences in reading and the steps he took to progress from disliking reading to making reading the joy of his life. His writing doesn’t only apply to reading, but can be extended to other forms of learning. He displays that once a person gets past the first few levels of reading it can become a joy to their lives. In his essay the lonely, good company of books, Richard Rodriguez (1982) brings to life his journey from his dislike for books to when he learned to enjoy reading.
Richard Rodriguez starts off his story writing about how his parents used reading to complete taxes and read to get news about faraway family members and other required reading. He talked about how his parents read out of necessity and did not spend a lot of time on it. His parents told him that he …show more content…
What did he see in books? Rodriguez clarifies that he knew that books were essential for his success in school; but was there something else gained? Rodriguez shows what he did to get more out of books. He started writing down the major ideas and themes that came from the books he was reading. Rodriguez gives two examples. When he read Robinson Crusoe, he found the theme of the book to be “the value of learning to live by oneself” (229). Also, when he finished Withering Heights, he noted that one must keep a hold of their feelings. Rodriguez explains that he was still in the mindset that books were only for education, and that these values and themes he wrote about did not really make sense to him on how they were important. He wrote them down so what he could describe the educational value of the