About this title: Hunger Of Memory is the story of a Mexican-American Richard Rodriguez, who begins his schooling in Sacramento, California, knowing just 50 words of English and concludes his university studies in the stately quiet of the reading room of the British Museum. Here is the poignant journey is a "minority student" who pays the cost of his social ...
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Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Publisher: Bantam, Westminster, Maryland, U.S.A.
Date Published: 1990
ISBN-13:9780553272932ISBN:0553272934
Description: Good. 0553272934 Mass market paperback, previously read used book in good condition, varying degrees of shelf wear, some spine creases, m..._ read more
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"Hunger of Memory is about a Mexican American named Richard Rodriguez who goes to Sacremento to go to school. Not knowing much English he still wants to survive this new way of life and become something of himself. His family, his past, and his culture didn't support his dream of becoming a success. This story explains that Richard had to loose something in order to gain something, it explains how important a language is, how little things of a culture is important in a person. When you come into a different environment that has a different language and tradition rather than what you are you feel awkward, just like a stranger and you try to act like you are one of them, but when your back home you feel better because you dont have to pretend in front of people that you're something else. That's exactly what I go through when I go to India. Just because I wasn't born in India, doesn't mean I'm not Indian. When I try to speak Indian people laugh, but I understand the language fully. When I walk on the streets people stare at me as if I'm some tourist. That is what Richard feels like in school and in that sort of environment and he has feelings of regrets."
"I didn't finish this book. The author talked about how language formed him, Spanish being his first language that created intimacy within his family. When they all switched to English, he had a language of words and facts and lost much of the emotional connection that Spanish, and the use of Spanish by parents and siblings, had offered him as a boy. Interesting concept for bilingual children who are forced into using solely one language."
"I liked this book, ok. I mean I liked it because it was well-written but overall, it was just ok. I thought at first he was devling into the transformation of immigrants until I was able to discuss this book with people of his ethnic background. They were angry with him. I was curious to find out why.
It did change my view of the book but not by much. It still was a well written memoir. He still sounds like a douchebag when reflecting back on his family and the cultural stigmas he has had to face throughout his career.
I hope one day someone might write a rebuttal memoir to this memoir so I can read about the life of someone who didn't grow up to be someone with his head stuck up his ass trying to find the meaning of life through color."
"When I decided to pick this book to read I was in my early 20's. The first chapters I felt I could somehow relate to the struggle in trying to assimilate to the mainstream culture. However, as I continue reading I was disappointed when I read further. I got the feeling that he was ashamed of his roots and felt that he was someone who is phony and he was not able to fit in with his family because of the education he had attain at UCLA. I am Mexican American and also attended college. When I was a student I never felt I had to assimilate to the mainstream culture and forget from where I came from. I am proud to be bi-cultural and do not have to pretend to be someone I am not. My family have taught me well."
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