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Enlightened by Richard Hoggart's essay, The Uses of Literacy, Richard Rodriguez shares his own views on the "scholarship boy" in his essay, The Achievement of Desire. Through his own experiences as a scholarship boy, Rodriquez manages to convince the reader of the hardships and sacrifices a working class boy has to make for his education. To strengthen his essay, Rodriguez turns to Hoggart's essay to borrow ideas and passages. It is obvious that Rodriguez adopts many of Hoggart's ideas about the scholarship boy in his writing, but a deep