Accurately Summarize relevant parts of at least three (3) different chapters of Richard Rodriguez’s Hunger of Memory: The Education of Richard Rodriguez;

Essay 3: 6-8 pages (exclusive of Works Cited)

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To successfully complete this assignment, you must
1) accurately summarize relevant parts of at least three (3) different chapters of Richard Rodriguez’s Hunger of Memory: The Education of Richard Rodriguez;
2) evaluate and analyze Rodriguez’s examples, reasoning, conclusions, and related evidence;
3) incorporate meaningful material from at least six (6) credible outside sources, at least three (3) of which must be scholarly sources/from scholarly library databases;
4) cite textual material using correct MLA documentation, including a Works Cited with at least seven (7) entries (Rodriguez himself, and your six outside sources);
5) SYNTHESIZE information from Rodriguez, your secondary sources, and your own views into a new argumentative whole. The key rhetorical demand of this assignment essay is to synthesize, meaning to make detailed connections, comparisons, and contrasts between Rodriguez’s ideas and examples and the six outside authors you find and discuss. In other words, take your chosen topic and place Rodriguez’s views on it in debate and dialogue with your own views and with those of Rodriguez’s interpreters and the related commentators you research;
6) incorporate Essay 1’s tasks of summary and evaluation, and build on Essay 2’s techniques of introducing opposing views and counter-arguing them. Thus, your paragraph development and structure should reflect your argumentative strategy: your major rhetorical task is to refer to several different, scholarly sources within (at least) one paragraph or (ideally) one long section (several pages) of the paper, avoiding separate-source-block-by-separate-source-block reference. Although multiple positions must be present in your paper and supported by credible sources, you must maintain a clear focus in support of your own position;
7) organize the essay so that intellectual connections are clear and coherent; and
8) express ideas in standard English and academic writing conventions, writing almost completely error-free prose in terms of spelling, punctuation, grammar, and academic formatting.

Choose one of the three topics listed below:
TOPIC A: Explain, analyze, and evaluate the American dream as reflected in the lives of the Rodriguez’s.

TOPIC B: Take note that Rodriguez’s school at the time demanded erasure of his native language. Through the family’s agreeing to speak no Spanish at home, the Rodriguez’s cultural identity was melted down into the mainstream American pot. Does Rodriguez blame his parents for this, or fault the school and society, or blame himself? Some activist Latinos or other radicals consider this change to be cultural genocide—do you? Yet along with blame, there are benefits, in Rodriguez’s view, to Americanization. Do the benefits outweigh the costs—or not? Why?

TOPIC C: Analyze and/or evaluate Rodriguez as an individual changed (for the better, or worse?) by his attainment of literacy and the higher education that resulted from his academic success. Explain how Rodriguez not only risks the strong disapproval of readers by admitting to rejecting his own parents, embarrassed at their Spanish accent, but he then also describes his futile attempts to forget his ethnic, lower-class background. A classic guilt-shame spiral ensues. Do you sympathize with Rodriguez, or not feel sorry for him at all? Why? Is Rodriguez crippled emotionally, mainly because he achieved power through knowledge? You can research the rest of his life, after publishing this book, and use it as evidence of empowerment—or not. Also very do-able is to explain how Rodriguez uses Richard Hoggart’s The Uses of Literacy and its concept of the “scholarship boy.”