Reading Response: Richard Rodriguez's Scholarship Boy

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Scholarship Boy Reading Response
The article scholarship Boy by Richard Rodriguez reviews how Rodriguez managed to balance his family life and academic life to succeed. Coming from an uneducated home, he had a thirst for more knowledge, seeking out for new ways to study. In his quest to gain more knowledge, Richard spends most of his time reading books, he finally discovers himself in a different way when he stumbles upon Hoggart's description of a scholarship boy. The scholarship boy explains Richard experiences and the many sacrifices that made him a scholarship boy.
Richard constantly quotes several passages throughout his writing to compare himself with Hoggart's description of a scholarship boy. Both Rodriguez and Hoggart present a different version of a scholarship boy. Although the two definitions are intertwined, Rodriguez experienced the life of being a scholarship boy as Hoggart presents his perception of a scholarship boy.
Hoggart acts as Rodriguez's guide, Rodriguez use Hoggart's ideas of a scholarship boy as a frame to present powerful ways of achieving success. The main difference between Richard's view of scholarship boy and Hoggart's definition is evident in Richard article when he discovers his capabilities. Richard presents his experiences as a scholarship boy based on his own experience to refute Hoggart definition of a scholarship boy.
Unlike Hoggart, Rodriguez believes that he is capable of thinking independently and can succeed in life despite Hoggart stating that a scholarship boy has no chance to become successful. Hoggart vi...