The Growth Of A “Scholarship Boy”

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run your life in order to be called a “scholarship man.” That is something that Rodriguez has not been able to accomplish over the years that he has been in school.
Rodriguez made it very apparent in his essay that he had grown away from his parents through much of his life. At one point in the essay he stated, “ I was not proud of my parents. I was embarrassed by their lack of education. It was not that I ever thought they were stupid, though stupidly I just took for granted their enormous native intelligence. Simply what mattered to me was they were not like my teacher’s”(573). So he began to think of his teachers as the primary authority in his life because he could not respect his parents. He did not respect them mostly because they have not gotten the type of education that he has, so he felt like he was better than they were. One time Rodriguez makes this apparent is when he asked his father for help with his math homework. All that his father was able to do was read ...

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yet he doesn’t even understand them most of the time. An example of this is when Rodriguez finds the lists of the hundred most important books in western civilization. After seeing this he had to go ahead and read all of them. After months of reading he finished all of the works, but he did not really understand any of them. But he just went ahead and crossed them off of the list making him think that he gained an in depth understanding of them all. So he is still rather immature because he can’t confess to the fact that he doesn’t understand everything. He also needs to realize that he may even need help from a teacher in order to get a better understanding of the things that he ...

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