Achievement of Desire

In the Achievement of Desire, Rodriguez dscribes his internal struggle and how he had to basically withdrawl his family to become educated. He comes from a prodomidently uneducated family and he guides us through his struggle to deal with his family and how he was determined to become that “educated man”. Rodriguez believes that this, however, is the price that must be made to break the mold of mediocrity and to become a part of that elite educated society that the “scholarship boy” wants so bad. Rodriguez uses a lot of personal stories in his essay, which I felt really worked for me. It made the essay easier to read for me, almost like he was in front of me telling me the story