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Questions for Study and Discussion

1. What does Gregory mean by “shame”?

Gregory thinks that shame is overestimate people because not everyone have the same economic situation.

2. How do the first three paragraphs of the essay help to establish a context for the narrative that follows?

He gave details about her life. It helps us to understand the main ide of the paragraph.

3. Why do you think Gregory narrates this episode in the first-person point of view? What would be gained or lost if
he instead wrote it in the third-person point of view?

I think that Gregory narrates this episode in the fist-person because is a story and this story is about his own life, so it is important
Gregory mentions that the boy of the story is himself. On the other hand, perhaps Gregory could lose the interest in the story if he
doesn’t narrate his story in the first-person.

4. Specific details can enhance the reader’s understanding and appreciation of a narrative. Gregory’s description of
Helene Tucker’s manners or the plaid of his mackinaw, for example, makes his account vivid and interesting. Cite
several other specific details he gives and consider how the narrative would be different without them.

Details help to the reader to imagine the story and guess what will happen next. I think that more details in a story could be
interesting.

5. Consider the diction of this essay. What effect does Gregory’s repetition of the word shame have on you? Why do
you think Gregory uses simple vocabulary to narrate this particular experience?

When Gregory is repeating many times the word SHAME it means that he wants to explain the main idea of the text. In addition,
it is written with a simple vocabulary because perhaps this story is written for children or to understand very well what really
means the word SHAME.

6. How does society still continue to use negativity to keep people down? Why do people feel the need to point out
those who have less or who are different?

People judge others when someone is different. It creates discrimination between them. However there are people that firth with it
and get their goals to demonstrate the society that the can do something without help. w

7. Describe a time when you have been made to feel insignificant? How does that experience help you to feel empathy
toward Gregory?

I think that I do not have an experience about that. However, I think that people can judge or feel insignificant because of your
clothes, or hair style, etc. People concentrate on you appearance,

8. In what ways could Dick Gregory be considered an outlier?

Dick Gregory was always positive and he always was thinking about having a father although he didn’t have one. He was facing
his problems. Many people don’t like to face problems and choose the easier way to solve it but Gregory decided to face those
things which hurt him.

Erika Valencia Jácome