CCS 100 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1-19: Misdemeanor, Chicano Moratorium, Counterpoint
24 Jul 2015
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Hunger of memory by richard rodriguez: had a childhood of intense family closeness and public alienation, went to school with rich kids, wrote this book as a middle-class american man. Marquez: his story is of the scholarship boy who returns home one summer from college to discover bewildering silence, facing his parents = american story, he is a comic victim of two cultures . Pastoral= country side life: written as the tradition of that high, courtly genre, but he isn"t an upper class pastoral singer. His becoming of age: him becoming a man by becoming a public man: book is about language, the great subject of his life, Write poetry; the new roman catholic liturgy; learning to read; writing; political terminology. Determines his public identity: life of a middle class man. R. r doesn"t agree with them on allowing children to use their home language in school.
