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Not my paper.... When I began reading about the “scholarship boy” I kind of got lost because I wasn’t sure where the story was going. Towards the middle I caught up and started to understand. I did not like the man writing it because of some of the things he had said about his parents. I felt like he was ungrateful for his parents, it could have been worse for him. I’m sure there was reasoning behind it but I just could not relate to him. All through out the story people say to him,” Your parents must be very proud of you.” I felt as though his parents were very proud of him like they say but he almost wouldn’t allow them to be. He would never tell them of the awards he received at school; basically he had no relationship with them. I kind of got the feeling that they were not used to the new language and way of living. They were very uneducated, but always teased their son of reading constantly. The boy says in the story,” I was not proud of my mother and father. I was embarrassed by their lack of education.” This really bothered me. I almost wanted to reach into the paper and strangle him. How on earth could you not be proud of your parents? I don’t care what my parents did with their lives- I would support them no matter what. They are my blood, my life and my family. If you don’t support your parents then you have some insecurities. Your parents will be the ones supporting you for the rest of your life. The way your parents are is most likely what you will grow up to be. Not so much job wise, but in other aspects of life. Just because these parents were uneducated doesn’t make them unequal human beings. This boy was so caught up in his teachers, their intelligence and wanting to be like them he forgot about his family. This boggles my mind because I can’t imagine ever having thoughts like this about my parents. Maybe because I have a different relationship with my parents? When I became anger with this writer it made me loose focus and only concentrate on the things I didn’t like about him. Overall it was a good story but I took offense to his comments about his parents. Finally he realizes that his parents were really proud of him and that without them his success would not be possible.