Analysis Of Daughter Of Intervention By Rodriquez

In the stories of Rodriguez, Agueros, and Santiagos characterizing and distinguishing the parent child relationships. The parent child relationships distinguished between Diaz was quite different than the others. She was more of an outcast child that lost her mother at a young age and never felt comfortable in Puerto Rico. Rodriquez had a hard time being in America because Puerto Rica was more of his home. He felt as if speaking Spanish made him feel at home and that his parents had to adjust to him being taught English at school. Rodriguez father would remain silent most of the time and his mother was the speaker of the family. The stories show a great bit of how the relationships with the parent and children had their differences. Most …show more content…
Yolanda was the second daughter of four girls. Yolanda loved to write as she prepared for a speech for school. Her mother helped her write the speech and as she was excited about what she had written; they went to her father and read the speech he was angry and ripped the speech to screeds. Her father and mother didn’t see things the same when it came to her education. She went to bed and her mother told her she would help her prepare another speech. After preparing another speech that made her father proud and all the teachers at school were proud of her accomplishment. Yolanda came home from school; her father had purchased her a new typewriter. The purchasing of a typewriter meant that he supported her writing and that she should write …show more content…
The kids at school would think he was “crazy man” for reading fat books; his father had the same opinion (Rodriguez 2308). Spanish was a reminder of being at home for Rodriguez (Rodriguez 12). Rodriguez argued against the supporters of bilingual education says “as a socially disadvantaged child” I consider Spanish my private language (Rodriguez 19). It was hard for children that came from a different nationality to fit in America. It made children private and a feeling of under educated. Rodriguez argument continues against bilingual education saying children suffer private individually and then suffer from assimilation (Rodriguez 26). If education would have been welcome to everyone the same giving all children the same opportunity then Mexican, Puerto Rican, Dominican, and Cuban would have never felt as an outcast; making it hard to find their place and