Aria-Richard Rodriguez In this article by Richard he is a Spanish speaking young child, and he enters school for the first time, and needs to use English as his school language. To his surprise one morning the nuns come to the family home, and ask the parent to speak only English. At an early age, he realized he was an American citizen. For me when I read this section my heart become sad “But the special feeling of closeness at home was diminished by then. Gone was the desperate, urgent, intense feeling of being at home; rare was the experience of feeling myself individualized by family intimates. We remained a loving family, but one greatly changed. No longer so close; no longer so close; bound tight by the pleasing and troubling knowledge of our public separateness. Neither my older brother nor sister rushed home after school anymore. Nor did I.” I felt that some part of the family culture and heritage was gone. “My mother...
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