The Achievement of Desire (Young Ho Yoon)

“The Achievement Desire” written by Richard Rodriguez is a story of a child who found himself through education. And it is a story self-identity and culture.
The story tells about how his early childhood all the way up to adulthood. And how he spent much of his childhood reading books, which was somewhat despised by his parents, because they believed he was reading to get out of chores, or to get out of going outside to play. The story also shows the differences between Richards home life and school. In the story Richard is called the “scholarship boy” because he was so smart and he earned a scholarship to further his education. It also shows the relationship that Richard shared with his parents at because they still had there accents and still practiced there cultural ways, and Richard kind of drifted away because he lost his accent and he could read and speak good English.
The boy in the story spent all his free time reading and studying. He spent his time trying to figure out what his teachers wanted from him.
I feel the story is extremely good, it shows that if we spend time with continuous challenge, trying and working hard, than anybody can earn a scholarship and accomplish success.
Overall, writer wants to tell us, the starting point of all achievement is desire. And to accomplish great things, we must dream as well as act.