Theme Of Hunger Of Memory By Richard Rodriguez

A life in America All human beings have desires and aspirations that they try to fulfill through the efforts they make in their lives, but which they almost never achieve since there are many obstacles that prevent them from acquiring the results of these ambitions even if they strive to achieve it. The interesting thing is that many of these people risk their lives to obtain the fruits that they are supposed to gather from their tree of dreams and desires with the intention of achieving a better life and thus escape from their problems, vicissitudes, and difficulties. There are two themes that I notice in the novel “Hunger of Memory” by Richard Rodriguez where people had or still struggle as a society. One is the struggle of …show more content…
His mother worked as a part-time typist while his father was a dental technician. In his autobiography book talked about him and his transition as a Hispanic in United States and how he reflected about assimilation of the dilemmas in his life. Rodriguez had problems to learn English when he was a child and he demonstrates that during that time to be a part of public society he needed to abandon his mother tongue, and also, be treated as equal. On many occasions, people speak of "learning a language" as if it were a process in which it begins and ends. Everyone really has their own notion of what it is to know a new language. Some are content to keep a basic conversation for a few minutes. Others would like to be able to talk for hours and use all kinds of specific terms but Rodriguez who did academically great and using English, he had a hard time to grow as Mexican-American. He started to feel a sense of isolation because his entire family was adopting the Americanize environment. “But once I spoke English with ease, I came to feel guilty” (30) in education and in relationships, guilt is often used for some to do what others claim. If a father says to his son: "Are not you ashamed of what you have just done?” He is "inviting" him to feel guilty and to do what he understands best. In the case of Rodriguez, he stopped speaking Spanish at home. The guilt appears when there is a clash …show more content…
Even with those problems, they can bring stereotypes and widespread generalizations about the members of a social group that provoke a tendency to accentuate the similarities within the group, especially when the categorization has value or importance for the one who makes it and the differences with other groups. We as people need to understand that life is not only one way, that exists we must recognize the full equality of all people in God and in the law, and in the government. We have to do it for the sole and fundamental reason that it is the right thing to do. Starting with the family educating the future generations can make a change in