Nonetheless, Richard found deep understanding himself as he reads The Uses Of Literacy by Richard Hoggart. He finds himself belonging to a certain group of people, ‘the scholarship boy’. Richard Hoggart states that a scholarship boy “is at the friction-point of two cultures”. The scholarship boy comes from a working class family background. When Richard starts school, he thrust into an opposing environment, where the chaos of a working class home is fading and the boy is somewhat surrounded by “mental calm”. Seeing that, school can be seen as a part of the ‘outside world’ to someone whom comes from a working class family. He enters the class “barely able to speak English” (482). It is simple to see a young boy getting caught up in such a situation, as his parents are barely scraping by and know he is in a place where he can ensure his future by getting a good
Nonetheless, Richard found deep understanding himself as he reads The Uses Of Literacy by Richard Hoggart. He finds himself belonging to a certain group of people, ‘the scholarship boy’. Richard Hoggart states that a scholarship boy “is at the friction-point of two cultures”. The scholarship boy comes from a working class family background. When Richard starts school, he thrust into an opposing environment, where the chaos of a working class home is fading and the boy is somewhat surrounded by “mental calm”. Seeing that, school can be seen as a part of the ‘outside world’ to someone whom comes from a working class family. He enters the class “barely able to speak English” (482). It is simple to see a young boy getting caught up in such a situation, as his parents are barely scraping by and know he is in a place where he can ensure his future by getting a good