Hunger of Memory by Richard Rodriguez：由李察罗德里格兹记忆的饥饿.ppt

Hunger of Memoryby: Richard Rodriguez Purpose of autobiography: to tell about how Rodriguez’s education moved him from boyhood to manhood. Rodriguez’s journey started as a young child in Sacramento, California in a small house in “a comfortable white neighborhood.” Rodriguezs family was not described as “well-to-do,” but his parents found the money to send their children to Catholic schools. Neither parent had education past elementary school. Rodriguez, could barely speak English when he started elementary school. Finished his academic efforts as a Fulbright scholar in Renaissance literature with degrees from Stanford University and Columbia University. Rodriguez’s journey in “Hunger of Memory” explains how he gave up his Mexican identity in order to access the Western culture. The use of two languages marked the difference between his public life and his private life as a child. When Rodriguez was a young child, he spoke primarily Spanish. Spanish was the comfortable language of his home life. English was the language he heard spoken by strangers outside the home. When Rodriguez attended a Catholic elementary school, his teachers were concerned about Rodriguezs poor performance. Teachers (nuns) ask parents to speak only English in the home. This event changes everything, including how he feels at home with his parents. At first he is frustrated with speaking only English. Social Dominance Theory starts to impact the Rodriguez family through “De-Mexicanization” (subtractive schooling) by subtracting students’ culture and language (in this case his entire families culture is subtracted.) His teachers also had Caring relations about school, but not about the individual student. Hunger of Memoryby: Richard Rodriguez “One Saturday morning, I entered the kitchen where my parents were talking in Spanish. I did not realize they were talking in Spanish however until, at the moment they saw me, I heard their voices change to speak English.”(Rodriguez,