Sometimes then they'd ask me how I managed it-- my 'success'" (Rodriguez, pg.597). ... "I think my mother's English almost had an effect on limiting my possibilities in life as well...And I believe that it affected my results on achievement tests, IQ tests, and the SAT" (Than, 420-421). ... In his essay, Richard Rodriguez wrote that "I was not proud of my mother and father. ... In his essay "Learning to Read and Write" he wrote that "That very discontentment which Master Hugh had predicted would follow my learning to read had already come, to t...

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• Grade Level: High School