The Boy's Desire- Blog 3

The Boy's Desire is a memoir piece written by Richard Rodriguez. In this essay, Richard talks about a specific event in his childhood that he remembers whenever he remembers Christmas. In Richard’s memory, he describes that particular Christmas morning. “The valley fog would life by late morning, the sun boiled haze for a few hours”. He describes the rooms of his house on 39^th street and the old toys he has stored in the closets that he cannot even remember how they looked like or what colour they were. The only toy that stuck out in memory to him was a bride doll. “brown hair, blue eyes, the sweet smell of styrene.” He was about seven or eight, and he asked the bride doll from his father and he says “My father’s reaction was unhampered by psychology”. I think that specifically means that even though it was a doll his son was asking for, he did not take it as a gender toy or said no because it was for girls. When he did get the doll, he refused to share it with his kid sister “but Helen was four years old, oblivious”. I believe I can relate with Richard because I remember I really wanted the Yellow Pokémon game for Gameboy and I knew it was sold out almost everywhere. When I got one on Christmas morning I was, as I believed, the happiest person in the world. I would play this game all day and sleep with it under my pillow at night. The diction used in this memoir that I like is when he remembers he had announced he wanted a bride doll and says “I must have been seven or eight- wise enough to know not to tell anyone at school, but young enough to whine out my petition from early November.”