Real Work

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their heads. He would go barefoot to school and the anglo kids would laugh at him for eating frijoles and tortillas. Always on the outskirts of town they struggled with staying clean. “Here comes the carnival,” they’d say. They weren’t able to keep themselves clean on their way into town because they had to go by dirt road. Being ostracized, they were shunned by society as nothings and ridiculed. They worked so hard and tried to keep up with school but would be way too tired, they fell asleep in class and would get sent home with notes about being inattentive. This wasn’t their fault. The teachers were unaware of their hardships.

In “Real Work”, Richard Rodriguez is a very privileged young man in a highly reputable school called Stanford University in the 1960’s. He was from a Mexican immigrant family that lived in California. He would notice all the rich kids, what they wore, what they looked like, and would notice the girls in his class overlooking him. He also ...

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