Friday, October 10, 2014
Blog #6
" However much he would have insisted that he was "proud" of his son for being able to master the texts, I knew, if pressed further, he would have admitted to complicated feelings about my success." This quote on page 76 of Richard Rodriguez's Going Home Again interests me in a couple of ways. First it interests me in the field of men as a gender. This insists that the man is jealous of his own son because he is smarter than him. That shows how competitive men are. We compete over everything and even this article shows that a grown man would be jealous of his own son. It also interests me that the father would lie to his son about how he feels. It isn't necessarily a bad lie, but more of a little white lie. Lastly, it shows the difference in generations. I myself can relate to this because neither of my parents went to college. They both did not need to in the generation they grew up in. They can support a family of 5 with 2 being in college no problem without an education of their own past a high school diploma. This is super interesting to me because it doesn't make much sense to me. It is confusing to think that I could be doing work similar to my parents some day but I had to go through 4 extra years of schooling to land the job. Education is expanding and becoming more and more prevalent everywhere in the world.
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I found the quote that you chose interesting as well as how you interpreted it. In movies, books, and biblical texts that I have seen/read I have heard of fathers being jealous of their sons' success, but I don't feel like I could relate. I know that my dad wishes for me to be an even better person that he is, but maybe that is because I am a girl. I do agree that the times have changed as far as job requirements. Unlike you, both of my parents have gone to college. However, if I wish to be as successful as them I should probably consider going to graduate school or further schooling other than my bachelors degree. I have a friend who neither one of her parents went to college and they are very wealthy, but I find that such a thing will be a hard thing to achieve once we are adults and have our own families. Recently I heard that Germany is making all of it's colleges free to anyone, so who knows, maybe things will change.
ReplyDeleteThis quote you used is very interesting. In most cases it is very rare to find a father to be jealous of his own son, as often times you would thing a father would be in fact proud of his son for succeeded and doing better. However in this case it is different, Rodriguez is given an opportunity his father never had which could be what draws this sense of jealousy.
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