The reading for this blog entry is "Hunger of Memory". It's an autobiography by Richard Rodriguez who came to the United States as a child, who only spoke Spanish. The autobiography takes you through his life, and his development. Initially, he thinks of the way his family speaks in Spanish at home as a type of intimacy. Over the course of the reading, as they all learn to speak English more fluently, his family life changes. They go from a family who only felt they could communicate freely at home, to being a family who is connected to the outside world. It changes the dynamic of their relationships. Towards the end of the reading, he reaches a point where he doesn't even really feel comfortable speaking Spanish at all. He uses the example of his grandmother however, who only spoke Spanish to prove that their intimacy didn't depend on language. He understood Spanish, so he would just listen to her and nod a lot of the time, but they still had an intimate relationship. He argues, "Bilingual enthusiasts, moreover, sin against intimacy." These are the people who argue that people should keep their family language. He claims that these people credit their language to what they should credit to their family members. It’s the people who depend upon their language and think that that's what keeps their family intimate. He disagrees, because he feels like intimacy isn't about language. I think it's interesting because he's someone who comes from Spanish as his first language and had to go through a lot of difficulty in order to speak English, and he still doesn't agree with it. It wasn't what I was expecting to come out of the reading, especially with how it started out as him really appreciating that his home life had a different language than most of the people around them. He felt that it bought them closer. His argument shows both sides, because as a child, he seems to be a bilingual enthusiast. However, as he grows up, his perspective changes.