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Relationship Between Author Richard Rodriguez and His Son

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influenced by Rodriguez father, an old-country Mexican who nevertheless made many sacrifices in order to obtain what he thought was the best for his son. As in many father-son relationships,  Rodriguezs interactions with his father, as expressed in his works, are ambivalent, to say the least. He loves and respects his father, but in many ways still does not understand  him. With age, he is beginning to see more and more of his fathers point of view, and though he is still very much his own man and still conflicted,  he finds himself moving more toward an understanding of what his father meant all along. Richard Rodriguez was born in Sacramento, Calif. in the 1950s to two Mexican immigrants. His  mother mastered her new culture somewhat successfully, gaining work in the school system and eventually getting clerical work, typing 80 words per minute. She was at home with her newfound  language, but still found it limiting (Magill, 1994). His father, on the other hand, was at a loss in the new country and found it difficult to learn and use  the new language. His father was often an embarrassment to Rodriguez, who cringed as he listened to him trying in halting, accented English to communicate simple concepts to carhops and  gas station attendants (Magill, 1994). That embarrassment was a major impetus toward the younger Rodriguezs acquisition of knowledge and skill in his countrys language. In his first work, Hunger of  Memory: The Education of Richard Rodriguez, he speaks of how the family spoke English in public, but at home they spoke their "private language," Spanish (Rodriguez, 1982). He observed how  his father, fluent and even eloquent in the home language, floundered and seemed embarrassed and uncertain in the unfamiliar milieu of American English. He also observed that it seemed to