Aria

I really enjoyed this read and noticed a lot of different things that i had not seen in the last few articles. Rodriguez really opens up to his struggles and what can happen when things just aren't going the right way. He shows the difficulties that must be faced when your common language is different and everyone around you is speaking a different one. I noticed the main point of view to the story were concerned with struggles and how much easier life is in an environment like that when you are bilingual because if Rodriguez would have been bilingual its would have helped solve some of his problems. The article was mostly based on life at home but it did recognize points on how not being very fluent in the main language at school can be to a strong disadvantage fore you. It makes you less confident to do things such as speak in class. The cultures of power is noticed in this read as well because the main language in the public where Rodriguez was, was English and he wasn't very good at and could barely speak it. I felt that this article did get a bit frustrating at times because you just wanted him to be bilingual because you felt bad.

1."I believe that what the rich have done to the poor people in this city is something that a preacher could call evil. Somebody has power. Pretending that they don't so they don't need to
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use it to help people-that is my idea of evil. "

This is a strong statement and an eye opener. It makes you think in the back of your mind the things in this statement that are true. Those in power should be using it for good and taking advantage of having that power in a good way. This quote is one out of anger that really decsribes and dids deep where this anger is coming from. If the rich and the poor reached a happy medium and helped each other everything would be so much different.


2."It's a different world from where you live. What can I say?"- Mrs. Washington

The environment where Mrs. Robinson is, is like no other. Its almost like a different lifestyle. She's trying to say what is there to do about this situation im in.

3.“As confident and grown-up as he sounds, he has the round face of a baby and is scarcely more than three and a half feet tall”

The way Cliffie sometimes had to live it would depict him as a adult in this lifestyle. But this was not true even his matureness couldnt prove he was nothing but still a boy.

I belive that is book teaches a lot of different things to its readers. It digs deep into lifestyles that some of us have never even heard of before. It shows hardship and at times is extremely sad to read. I liked this read the best so far and believed it told a better story than the other articles. It kept my interest the whole time and did make me want to keep reading. It deals with peoples lives that have delts with stds and deaths due to stds which is extremely sad because they are poor so they cant get much medication for it. It draws your attention to poverty and the different things that could be done to change it or help. Welfare should be used to help those is real need like the people in the book. It also shows the need for education in a society like this one because some of the kids really are smart and try hard like Cliffie.