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Bezig met laden... Burro Genius: A Memoir (editie 2004)door Victor Villasenor (Auteur)
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Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. 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. geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
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. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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Google Books — Bezig met laden... GenresDewey Decimale Classificatie (DDC)813.54Literature English (North America) American fiction 20th Century 1945-1999LC-classificatieWaarderingGemiddelde:
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