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In Richard Rodriguez’s speech on his book, Hunger of Memory, he clarifies his positions on bilingual education. ... Overall, hearing Richard Rodriguez’s speech helps the reader understand more thoroughly why he opposed bilingual education and why he was so adamant about intimacy traveling only through one’s native language.
Rodriguez speaks of his experiences as a young Hispanic-American boy, knowing only fifty words of English. ... Rodriguez’s confident tone throughout the speech differs greatly from the unsure tone of the book. ...
Richard Rodriguez explains how bilingual education was not beneficial to non-English speaking children because it would “trivialize the nature of intimate life” (12), meaning intimacy would be in jeopardy if a student were educated bilingually. ... One part of Rodriguez felt that bilingual education would affect his intimate life whereas the other part of him felt that a person can create their own intimacy. In his speech Rodriguez did not mention anything about creating your own intimacy.
Approximate Word count = 749
Approximate Pages = 3
(250 words per page double spaced)
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