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“I was in love with a little girl named Helene Tucker, a light-complexioned little girl with

pigtails and nice manners”

Without this citation, it would be more difficult to understand because this is important to
know who Gregory is talking about and also I think it is important it has been written in the
first person because he emphasizes what he thinks about her

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 repeats the word shame so many times, he is trying to emphasize, to make us know the
way he felt and also he used simple vocabulary because it was an experience that could have happened
to anyone so it is not necessary academic vocabulary to tell this kind of stories.

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?

Society continues to use negativity to keep people down when they are too much difference between
them If we talk about money because people who have money will always feel more important than
people who do not

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

I have never had an experience like Gregory’s but I can say that I used to feel ashamed when I
got low grades when I was in high school in those situation I used to feel upset

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

Gregory was always a positive person and even though he did not have a father to be with
him, he always faced problems no matter what could happen