Indentation Of Childhood In Richard Rodriguezs Hunger Of...

Richard Rodriguez writer of â€Å"Hunger of Memory†, had given an imagery of his childhood in Chapter four: â€Å"Complexion†. Where Rodriguez use of figurative speech throughout the chapter, gives an indentation of his questioning as a child. Questioning his identity, skin complexion, and race growing up as a child and asking â€Å"what if’s† if he had experienced things as his father had. Also understanding why his mother had always sheltered him from the outside. Not allowing him to be outside for to long. Throughout pg 133 Rodriguez shows a very distraughted mind where he stares into the mirror, remembering the things his aunt had commented on dark complexion boys in the family. Rodriguez said: â€Å"I heard the swirling voices of aunts, and even my†¦show more content†¦I knew.† Rodriguez shows of his mother not wanting him to step out the sun, of getting darker than what his complexion already is. This causes Rodriguez to be shameful of his complexion as a child, due to what his mother was thinking she was sheltering him from. Making him to believe he will grow up as an ugly child. In the end of pg 127 Rodriguez said: â€Å"Dark skin was for my mother the most important symbol of a life of oppressive labor and poverty.† This memory had made Rodriguez understand to why his mother would always tell him to not stay in the sun for to long. As well as being proud of her children receiving their education because she did not want her children especially Rodriguez, to be perceived as the â€Å"los pobres† â€Å"los braceros†. â€Å"Los braceros† were the ones who have done labor work and would have their skin exposes to the heat of the sun. Yet Rodriguez had said in pg 137 â€Å" I would notice the shirtless construction workers, the roofers, and the mexican gardeners. I envied them their physical lives, their freedom to violate the taboo of the sun.† The sight of these workers had made Rodriguez envy them but he also wanted to denied what he had say from them, but the stronger he becomes to deny the idea, he becomes to desire it . In the final pages of the chapters, pg 148 149 Rodriguez becomes to accept his skin complexion from working in the summer with â€Å"los braceros†, by saying: â€Å"My