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A 5 page paper which examines the essay "The
Achievement of Desire" by Richard Rodriguez, using the work "The Loss of the Creature"
by Walker Percy, as it relates to the loss of sovereignty in education. No additional
sources cited.
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5 pages (~225 words per page)
File: JR7_RAsovern.rtf
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experience. These are often subtle realities that people do not truly understand or acknowledge in their own life. Often, in the case of education, we as students are required to
loss our sovereignty in order to succeed in school. In the case of Richard Rodriguez, as illustrated in "The Achievement of Desire," we see a man who understands what he
has lost, how he has lost his sovereignty, how he represents a symbolic package, and how he became a passive consumer as a student. In the following paper we examine
such realities, discussing Rodriguez loss of sovereignty, how it was, or was not, necessary for him to lose his sovereignty, and how education may well insist that students lose their
sovereignty in order to survive and succeed in school. Rodriguez and His Loss of Sovereignty Our first indication that Rodriguez is going to lose his sovereignty comes when
we find the boy examining why he is fearful of reading. He states that "The sentences of the first books I read were coolly impersonal. Toned hard" (631). He then
claims that what most bothered him was "the isolation reading required. To console myself for the loneliness Id feel when I read, I tried reading in a very soft voice"
(631). In this we note that he is young boy who feels incredibly distanced from reading. He understands that, to him, the world of reading and learning is a world
of isolation and loneliness. He gains nothing from it but knowledge, as he will later learn, and this education is doing nothing to further his own sovereignty. As a young
child he recognizes this but cannot put words to it. He then finds a simple, and powerful, way to voice this reality he faces, this fear he faces, at
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