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The Achievement of Desire
Title: The Achievement of Desire
Category: Literature / English
Details: Words: 654 | Pages: 2.8 (approximately 235 words/page)
The Achievement of Desire
The Achievement of Desire
Richard Rodriguez’s' The Achievement of Desire is a story self-identity and culture. Having grown up with parents who remained with the traditions of their Hispanic culture, Richards’s ambition to learn, and to be like his teachers, separated him from his roots. Almost immediately at a young age Richard realizes learning requires quiet time and space that he did not have much of at home. As his desire increased to …showed first 75 words of 654 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 654 total…is further ahead of his friends.
He did what the teachers wanted and he didn’t make his learning experience a part of himself, he made his goal to learn by reading and not understanding—instead of learning through experiences he had throughout life. He thinks he is beyond his peers, but if he doesn’t understand what he is reading, all he has accomplished is being able to read, like everyone else his age.
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