Richard Rodriguez was born into a family of Mexican immigrants, the first years of his life he only spoke Spanish; it was not until he began attending a Roman Catholic school that he was introduced to the English language. In his autobiography, Rodriguez describes his educational journey in California as a Mexican American student of immigrant parents; he had difficulty with both languages, he found himself stuck between his private life and his public life. His family culture involved the most valued things in his life, like his family and Spanish, the native language. Early in his studies, Richard learned to separate his private life from his daily life at school; he valued education and spent most of his time reading and studying with the nuns at his school in order to learn English. He felt very close to his family until one day three nuns from the school visited him and told his parents that it would be better for their children to speak English at home so that they could progress in their studies; from that day on his parents decided that they would practice their English at all times and this changed things for Richard, he became embarrassed by his parents' lack of education and this broke the relationship and comfort that he had at home. Richard practiced Catholicism as his religion in this country. institution, he learned about the existence and mediation between public and private life. Attending a religious school brought him closer to the church and “had an extraordinary presence in my world,” as Rodriguez states. Growing up he had struggles and one of them was feeling different, his skin tone and acceptance of his physical image played an important role in his life; his mother always insisted that he stay away from the middle of paper ......r is it about merging two languages ​​to create multiculturalism; Bilingual education is, as the word itself suggests, a duality but it is important to emphasize the language that is introduced for it to be successful. Memory Hunger is Richard Rodriguez's transition to America, the struggles he faced learning a language, being called a minority, feeling bad about himself and his religion; always debating between public and private trying to find a sense of belonging. Richard got his education and succeeded because of his experiences, some of them painful, but those experiences made him the person he is today, and now, looking back, he can finally understand what was private and what was public, as a writer he can decide to become a public person. and share his life so others can learn from the struggles he went through.