Language and Cultural Conflicts in Rodriguez’s “Aria”
Introducing a child to a whole new language and way of lifestyle, it abruptly impacts the child without any previous notice, and expects he or she to suddenly change and not to be affected. It is like throwing a newborn in a pool and expecting it to swim back to its mother, unreasonable and irrational. In Richard Rodriguez’s “Aria”, published in 1980, which previously appeared in the american scholar, presents the genuine struggles that come in hand with adjusting to a new language and culture. It emphasizes not only the social aspects of a language barrier, but the emotional and physical facets of it as well. All these previously mentioned issues are a great conflict that affect many people no matter or race, it is something that many have felt and gone through, at a point in their life, thus the importance of the essay and effect it has on its readers. This was achieved by the implementation of rhetorical appeals in the topic efficiently, and conveying a clear and understandable topic, done by Rodriguez as the author. In addition to this the author uses personal experiences and real life moments from his life that impacted him greatly as a child, and uses these to emit the emotions he felt at the time to the reader as well as …show more content…
Which was a project proposed late 1960s in hopes of helping children adapt and learn faster in the american schooling system by allowing them to use there “family language as the language of school”, then he disagrees with the system by claiming that “it is not possible for a child… to use his family's language in school”, because this only restrains or furthers pushes the child away from actually adapting and assimilating the american schooling system any quicker at all (Rodriguez,
Introducing a child to a whole new language and way of lifestyle, it abruptly impacts the child without any previous notice, and expects he or she to suddenly change and not to be affected. It is like throwing a newborn in a pool and expecting it to swim back to its mother, unreasonable and irrational. In Richard Rodriguez’s “Aria”, published in 1980, which previously appeared in the american scholar, presents the genuine struggles that come in hand with adjusting to a new language and culture. It emphasizes not only the social aspects of a language barrier, but the emotional and physical facets of it as well. All these previously mentioned issues are a great conflict that affect many people no matter or race, it is something that many have felt and gone through, at a point in their life, thus the importance of the essay and effect it has on its readers. This was achieved by the implementation of rhetorical appeals in the topic efficiently, and conveying a clear and understandable topic, done by Rodriguez as the author. In addition to this the author uses personal experiences and real life moments from his life that impacted him greatly as a child, and uses these to emit the emotions he felt at the time to the reader as well as …show more content…
Which was a project proposed late 1960s in hopes of helping children adapt and learn faster in the american schooling system by allowing them to use there “family language as the language of school”, then he disagrees with the system by claiming that “it is not possible for a child… to use his family's language in school”, because this only restrains or furthers pushes the child away from actually adapting and assimilating the american schooling system any quicker at all (Rodriguez,