The Influence Of Education In 'Achievement Of Desire' By Richard Rodriguez

Richard Rodriguez expresses his denotation in “Achievement of Desire” of his past educational experiences, which influences his relationship with his family, and overall views of the current distance within their relationship because of the educational division between him and his family. Alice Walker fictional short story “Everyday Use” depicts a tale with disproportions, as well as resemblances in cultural values and views of education as Rodriguez. Dee, one of the daughters of an old fashion, country-styled home, comes to visit her family after years of leaving to receive an education. Dee unexpectedly representing a newly artificial identity claiming to signify the African American culture to preserve her heritage, but overlooks the true African American culture through her family as she looks down on their way of living. Dee and Rodriguez were both fortunate to continue their education, despite their parents’ unfortunate up brings. Rodriguez’s father wasn’t fortunate to pursue his dreams of becoming in engineer as he once anticipated. As his mother was awarded a high school diploma, but hit a brick wall as she looks to farther her career. Rodriguez division from his family stems from the educational background of his parents, which contributes his battle between education …show more content…
While Rodriguez was in the third grade, he came across “The Uses of Literacy” by Richard Hoggart, where he finds Hoggart’s interpretation of the “scholarship boy”, as a description of himself. With an uneasy feeling, he realizes in order to be successful, he has to separate his schooling and home. “A primary reason for my success in the classroom was that I couldn’t forget that schooling was changing me and separating me from the life I enjoyed before becoming a student” (Rodriguez