Aria: A Memoir of A Bilingual Childhood - Rodriguez Case

In the reading “Aria: A Memoir of a Bilingual childhood” Rodriguez talks about the troubles he had as a child trying to differentiate between his public language English and his private language Spanish. At home they celebrated their heritage and culture by speaking Spanish and it became a safe place for him where he knew he could escape from their society which was dominated by the language of English. As the story goes on his safe place eventually flips around when he has become accustomed to English rather than Spanish. You can see how it has affected the family, with the father not talking because his English isn’t strong enough and the kids become impatient, and the other members and friends of the family becoming insulted by the children’s lack of respect towards their heritage. I believe that Rodriguez shows of the parents sacrifices for their kids by giving up what they have always know their Mexican culture to adapt their kids to their society today American culture. In the story, Richard doesn’t really feel like an American citizen until he fully knows the language, which shows that society is built on communication and language. When he finally grew apart from his heritage and private language he could finally become like the other members of the society around him.etc. etc. etc. etc.

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