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This 5 page paper compares the strengths and weaknesses, and the issues families face in the film “Avalon,” and the books “Hunger of Memory” by Richard Rodriguez and “An American Requiem” by James Carroll. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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Carroll. It examines the strengths and weaknesses of the families, their public and private identities, and their successes and failures. Discussion We begin with Richard Rodriguezs book Hunger of Memory,
his autobiographical essay on what it was like to grow up as the son of Mexican immigrants. Perhaps the most striking thing about Rodriguezs book is his discussion of the
differences between his public and private lives in regard to religion and language. There are quite clear distinctions between his public and private identities; probably much more than would happen
if he were white. For example, with regard to religion he writes that he began to distinguish between "home Catholicism" and "classroom Catholicism" (Rodriguez 83). In school, "religious instruction stressed
that man was a sinner" and that God was a strict judge (Rodriguez 83). By the time he was in the third grade, Rodriguez knew what all the sins were,
and had become used to confession to a priest each week and receiving forgiveness for his sins (Rodriguez). In contrast to this judgmental God was the God that his family
worshipped at home; in that setting, God was the person they turned to when they were in trouble and needed help (Rodriguez). When someone was sick, or out of a
job, or when things were going wrong, they asked God for help (Rodriguez). At home, "God the Father was not so much a stern Judge as One with the power
to change our lives" (Rodriguez 85). The Roman Catholic Church teaches that there are those who intercede with God on behalf of man; the saints are prominent in this regard.
Rodriguez notes that at school, the intermediary was Christ but at home it was the Virgin Mary; this, he believes, has to do with the fact that the women were
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