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Reading Guide (handout) values: a person's principles or standards of behavior; one's judgment of what is important in life“A Celebration of Grandfathers” - Rudolfo A. Anaya
- Page 444
Before You Read: - Reading Guide (handout)
- values: a person's principles or standards of behavior; one's judgment of what is important in life.
- worldview: the overall perspective from which one sees and interprets the world
- perspective: a particular attitude toward or way of regarding something; a point of view
- interpret: to understand the significance of; to explain the meaning of
Rudolfo A. Anaya - Born 1937 in New Mexico
- novels, stories, and articles
- writings reflect Mexican American
- heritage and his concern for the past
- “A Celebration of Grandfathers” reflects on the “old ones” he remembers from his childhood
Notes: - What type of essay?
- What is the most important subject that Anaya reflects upon?
- Anaya reflects on his feelings about the value of the elderly in our society
- What does the passage that describes his grandfather as “connected to the cycle that brought the rain and kept it from us” (447) reveal?
- He saw himself as a participant in the “circle of life” not a bystander.
- What is Anaya’s attitude toward the values of young people today?
- What does the “autumn of life” (451) refer to?
- What does Anaya do to bring the essay “full circle?”
- What lesson did Anaya learn from the death of his friend, a young man dragged by his horse?
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