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Shame








         Counterclaim       People felt ashamed by getting discriminated because of their situation.







                 Refuting Evidence                     Refuting Evidence                     Refuting Evidence
    “There was shame there. Now there was   “There was shame in wearing the brown  “There was shame in running over to
    shame everywhere. It seemed like the    and orange and white plaid mackinaw'   Mister Ben's at the end of the day and
    whole world had been inside that        the welfare gave to three thousand boys.  asking for his rotten peaches, there was
    classroom, everyone had heard what the   Why'd it have to be the same for     shame in asking Mrs. Simmons for a
    teacher had said, and everyone had turned  everybody so when you walked down   spoonful of sugar, there was shame in
    around and felt sorry for me. There was   the street the people could see you were   running out to meet the relief truck. I
    shame in going to the Worthy Boys       on relief?”                           hated that truck, full of food for you and
    Annual Christmas Dinner for you and                                           your kind. I ran into the house and hid
    your kind, because everybody knew what                                        when it came.”
    a worthy boy was. Why couldn't they just
    call it the Boys Annual Dinner-why'd
    they have to give it a name?”








                  Commentary                             Commentary                            Commentary

    That dinner made Gregory feel           Giving charity to poor people meant   There are lots of poor people on
    terrible. He was ashamed of being       to Gregory that those clothes were    streets asking for food or money.
    poor.                                   just to identify poor people from rich  Gregory realized that poor people
    Rich people could be right, but in our   people, and this way avoiding them.    were asking for food to rich people
    society we thing that charity is just to                                      and rich people made mockery of
    see rich people “sharing” few things                                          that.
    with poor people just to be more
    “important” people.





















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