Blog #6

« I am the son of Mexican-American parents, who speak a blend of Spanish and English, but who read neither language easily. I am about to receive a Ph.D. in English Renaissance literature. »

I found this sentence really interesting. I am not used to those situations even though I guess they became to be more and more usual. I think it must be very hard for the entire family to live this situation. It must separate them a lot; they don’t live in the same world. I think it is a very difficult situation to deal with. The parents must be very happy for their son to achieve such things and having a bright future in front of him but at the same time regret the proximity they have before he studied in a different language and started living in a different world as theirs.

"The sight of the heads around me bent over their texts and papers, many so thoroughly engrossed that they wouldn’t look up at the silent clock overhead for hours at a stretch, made me recall the remarkable noises of life in my family home."

I like this sentence because it shows that we always notice how good and useful and important something was until we don’t have it anymore. In this case I don’t think he enjoyed the noises in his home as much as he would now that he knows how sad it is without it. We should be more aware of the things that surround us and that we are lucky to have or experience.