Project # 2 (Blog Post)

    This "Blog Post" are different reflections about Rodriguez essay "The Achievement of Desire" that I wrote them before making my final essay of Project # 2! 

    After writing them they help me a lot to construct and focus my ideas on what later on was My final Draft of this project. I post them so the reader to understand how I developed my ideas slowly but deeply. By first reading this post and then reading the essay, you will also notice my writing improvements as well as new skills!

 “The Scholarship Boy”

            Richard Rodriguez in his essay defines himself as a Scholarship boy. But what does that means for him? It is written most times as the lower class student who is being helped by his schooling; but in Rodriguez descriptions he goes way beyond that.  He describes himself as being a good student but also a bad student, he was always successful but very unconfident. Rodriguez was anxious and ambitious to learn. This “Scholarship Boy” felt in love with books, since he saw them as crucial for his academic success, but he accepts that he wasn't a really good reader, but he moves on and on wit his special patience and superstition of a scholarship boy. He wanted to find a totally concentration moment at the time to study, that at the beginning it was hard to reach at home. He also defines a scholarship boy as a person who tends to stress a lot when it comes to scholar matters, with lack of self-confidence, someone who sees life as a ladder, also as the very last person who feels obliged to have an opinion of his own.

            But Richard Rodriguez he found himself with Richard Hoggarts description of the Scholarship boy, where he notice that there where other students like him put there. Hoggart´s describe the scholarship boy as that one who must move between environments, his home and classroom, which where at cultural extreme, opposed. Whereas at home the boy feels intense pleasure of intimacy; while in the other hand they found at school some type of mental calm.

            Hoggart and Rodriguez agree in many things when it comes to some things that characterized the “scholarship boy”.  Hoggart mention how this boy spends most of his time alone, and in classroom, and how from anxiety brings success for them. In them balance is lost. They still want to be part of their family circle but they cant since the separate their lives in different worlds putting intense concentration in is studies. The scholarship boy needs to spend a lot of time studying at nights where they find silent and concentration.  Brooding and sensitive are other words they use to refer to it. Hoggart mention “Good Student, troubled son”, while also Rodriguez mention that the Scholarship boy is “ a very bad student, a mimic, and lack of opinion and thought”.  So In some way I think that Rodriguez do not agree with Hoggart at the moment where he quoted the scholarship boy as a Good Student. 

The Two Worlds in Rodriguez Life!

            Richard Rodriguez, “The Scholarship Boy”, decided to conducted his life by separating his two worlds; his studies and his family. To characterize these two worlds its important to notice that Rodriguez decided to enjoyed or dedicate most of his time to his studies, and concentration on his success, and leave his home life and family behind. He felt that education was changing him, and that he didn't want to miss the opportunity of being successful. He was ashamed and embarrassed by his parent’s lack of education and he took for granted their enormous native intelligence. What matter to him was that they where not like his teachers and because of this he decided to take away his parents from his scholar life. As time was passing by he spoke to classmates and teachers more often that to family members. As a scholarship boy characteristic R. Rodriguez cannot afford to admire his parents and starts to creating a father figure of his teacher.

            He understood and reminds always himself to all of the knowledge that their teachers could provide to his education. He was growing up and he get use to it, he separate the to different worlds of his day, putting his scholar life at the front and his home life at the back of his head. This was his life for many years, until at the end to the Account of himself he changes his perspective of seeing life, and decided to leave his educational life back, and emphasis on his personal and home life.