Sunday, October 22, 2017

Kingston

Does Kingston succumb to prejudice or overcome it? She overcame it because she was able to be a strong independent woman and not Just become a housewife Does she defeat stereotypes but reinforce others? She defeated the stereotype that she is Just going to be a housewife and she became a writer. She did reinforce the stereotype that she wants to please an unappreciative mother. Reinforces the fact that she is socially awkward. only hate the road when your missing home this essay, Rodriguez focuses on how the use of language has marked the difference between his public life and his private life.

When he was a young child, he spoke primarily Spanish. Spanish was the comfortable language of his home life, while English was the language he heard spoken by strangers outside the home. Soon after Rodriguez starts attending a Catholic elementary school, the family receives a visit from his teachers, concerned about Rodriguez''s poor performance and his siblings'' academic achievement. The teachers ask his parents to speak only English in the home. This event changes everything, according to Rodriguez, including how he feels at home with his parents.

At first he is frustrated with peaking only English, but the day finally comes when he feels comfortable enough with English to answer a question in class. "The belief, the calming assurance that I belonged in public, had at last taken hold," he remembers. Though Rodriguez feels that he lost something when he and his family became increasingly Americanized, he stresses that there were also things gained. Two of the most critical were "a public identity" and maturity. For this reason, he does not agree with bilingual education proponents who argue that children not taught in their native languages lose their "individuality.

He also does not believe that these "bilingualists" understand the necessity and value of assimilation. Chapter Two: "The Achievement of Desire" In this essay, Rodriguez reminisces about his education and the impact it has had on his life. He claims that his success in life is based on how education changed him and separated him from the life he had "before becoming a student. " Throughout this essay, Rodriguez refers to Richard Hogart''s book The Uses of Literacy, in which he discovered one of the few mentions of the "scholarship boy" by educational theorists.

Rodriguez sees himself in Hogart''s descriptions of the scholarship boy, and this has helped him understand his experiences. Rodriguez expresses concern that he was the type of student who, while making good grades, simply memorized information and never developed his own opinions. Like And also like the "scholarship boy," Rodriguez experienced nostalgia for his past. But he notes that while education created a gulf between him and his parents, education also made it possible to care about that fact and to write about it. Paralleling Rodriguez''s education were the increasingly contrary feelings he eveloped toward his parents.

While he did not mean to be rude and hurtful toward them, he found himself becoming angry when they did not seem to be as capable as his teachers. More and more as a student, Rodriguez looked toward his teachers, and not his parents, as role models. Rodriguez remembers his parents'' experiences with education and work. His mother received a high school degree even though, he says, her English was poor. She went to night school, worked as a typist, and was very proud of her excellent spelling ability. His father moved to the United States as a young man, seeking a better life as n engineer.

That dream never materialized, and his father worked at a series of unsatisfying low-end Jobs that, nonetheless, kept the family comfortable. Chapter Three: "Credo" In "Credo," Rodriguez discusses his relationship with the Catholic Church. He remembers that Catholicism "shaped my whole day. It framed my experience of eating and sleeping and washing; it named the season and the hour. " Before Rodriguez left home to attend Stanford University, he and his family attended Mass every Sunday and on feast days. The first English-speaking guest at their house was their local priest.

Rodriguez remembers how the Church dominated his education. The nuns'' teaching through memorization, while discouraging "intellectual challenges to authority," encouraged learning as a rite of passage. He fondly recalls becoming an altar boy and how this role introduced him to the rituals of life and death. Rodriguez discusses his current views of the Church. He still goes to Mass each Sunday but is not particularly pleased with the changes the Church has made beginning with the reforms of the 1960s. Does Kingston bond more with black people or white people? Does she become girly girl or strong independent woman?

Strong independent Is the chinese community and Kingston herself held back by American stereotypes of Asians? Yes I believe so bc people Judge without knowing and cause her to have anxiety and she cannot voice her opinion. But then sometimes no bc the stereotype that they work hard does not necessarily hold them back if they follow it. It can put Is it the elders that hold back chinese girls Does the narrator accomplish overcoming gender discrimination What is the origin and background of the woman warrior and how does this identity help Kingston mount her challedges?

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