Analysis: The Hunger Of Memory By Richard Rodriguez

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The search for the gates of destiny remains the pinnacle of human existence, but in the journey to his future, Rodriguez is faced with struggles that drastically separates him from his past life. In the excerpt from Richard Rodriguez’s “The Hunger of Memory”, Rodriguez describes his quest for higher education in the modern world as a non-white person as a tragic search for a lost cause. Detached from both his family and society, Rodriguez uses vivid language to highlight his distress and torment in his desperate search for a spotlight in the growing world. Throughout his work, Rodriguez portrays his burdens by detailing the plethora of disregard the society has on him. Rodriguez uses the phrase “extreme public alienation” to illustrate the