Reading Response 6

Reading Response 6

Richard Rodriguez, “Aria” (R 118)

Due Tuesday, October 28th

Choose one of the prompts below or come up with your own focus.

1. When Rodriguez first attends school, he is not a very successful student. What helps him to be more successful? Show this in the text and explain.

2. How did Rodriguez’s education affect his relationship with his family? Show the changes. Does he see this as necessary? Do you?

3. According to Rodriguez, what does having a public identity provide people? Show this in the text. Do you agree with Rodriguez about these benefits?

4. One of the possible purposes of education is to assimilate, to make students part of the dominant culture. What are the ways that Fan Shen, Gloria Anzaldúa, and Richard Rodriguez deal with this? Do you see one of these responses as being better than the others or are they all valid? Explain.