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Chargement... Burro Genius: A Memoir (édition 2004)par Victor Villasenor (Auteur)
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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. Just couldn't get into it, abandoned August 2013 The books begins when the author is unexpectedly asked (he volunteers)to speak at a California convention of English teachers. His talk, more of harangue and justifiably so, centers around his early experiences with teachers who told him he was stupid because he was Mexican. The book is written in a story-telling fashion as is the custom with many Mejicanos that is beautiful - the trials and tribulations of going from one school to another - encountering non-supportive teachers, losing his brother to a drunken doctor and rising above and becoming a successful writer - the message is that love, compassion and forgiveness only matter. It's a tear jerker. aucune critique | ajouter une critique
Standing at the podium, Victor Villaseñor looked at the group of educators amassed before him, and his mind flooded with childhood memories of humiliation and abuse at the hands of his teachers. He became enraged. With a pounding heart, he began to speak of these incidents. When he was through, to his great disbelief he received a standing ovation. Many in the audience could not contain their own tears. So begins the passionate, touching memoir of Victor Villaseñor. Highly gifted and imaginative as a child, Villaseñor coped with an untreated learning disability (he was finally diagnosed, at the age of forty-four, with extreme dyslexia) and the frustration of growing up Latino in an English-only American school in the 1940s. Despite teachers who beat him because he could not speak English, Villaseñor clung to his dream of one day becoming a writer. He is now considered one of the premier writers of our time. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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