Aria

This article is very different from every other article we read in class. Every article is about education theory whereas this only has a little bit of theory in the end. Most of this is a personal story, told in the first person. I like how the writer, Rodriguez, begins this article with pure sarcasm. This really lightens the mood at first. After he describes what his school life was like, he really supports the sterotype for nuns in the fact that they can be pretty nasty. He then explained what happened when his worlds collided. That is, his school life and his home life. He painted a pretty clear picture as he described the nuns sitting on the blue couch and his parents speaking spanish in the kitchen but, upon his entering, would only speak english and forced him to speak it too. Of course he and his siblings mastered English eventually but Rodriguez gets nostalgic from time to time about how things were when he only spoke Spanish. He must realize there are many advantages to being billingual, especially from a young age. In the end of the article he explains bilingual children gain two forms of identity, a private one and a public one.