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I have to read this for class. The problem I face is staying interested in this book. So, would you say the book is basically about his education and being a "scholarship boy"

I'd say it's about his views on affirmative action as well and about being a minority in a place where he felt like he was especially a minority -academia. Spoiler alert: The book was written 30 years ago when a lot was different and the author seems to have had a lot of unresolved issues about his identity. I googled his biography and learned that he was gay which carried a major social stigma at that time. It probably contributed to his identity issues.

A fascinating account of being a young child in school, being asked to read, listen, and speak a new language (English), that sounds so harsh and ugly to you when your own language (Spanish) sounds like music. I really enjoyed descriptions of the generational gaps in his family, how his mother could not understand why he loved books so much, though she tried, how she was amazed that anyone would tell personal problems to an outsider (therapist), and how skin color was so important in the cultural - defining the type of work one would be able to do.