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In this part of the text, you can see Dick says that rich people give poor This part of the text shows the crude
how Dick feels about his situation. people clothes to help them. But he reality that poor people live every
He was ashamed to be poor. He fells just feels that it was like a uniform day, the must eat the left overs of
that this dinner for poor people to recognize who were poor and other people. They must ask for food
wasn’t for help them or for make avoid them. He hates it and when to other people. They feel bad doing
them feel happy. It was just for make he throws it onto the garbage his those things, but they don’t have
rich people feel better with mother calls him rat. It is also true other option because it is the only
themselves. Charity was just for in our society because rich use to thing that they know to do.
ashamed poor people. That happens gap poor people in order to avoid Sometimes poor people don’t have
in our society, rich people just do them or not to be mixed with them. access to education, and they cannot
charity to give a good impression of succeed.
them not really to help others.

Questions for Study and Discussion

1. What does Gregory mean by “shame”?

His feeling about the different situations that he had to live because of poverty.

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

He started to narrate his life and the difficulties that he had to overcome every day trying to impress Helene.

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?

He narrated the story in first person because he was who live it. I think that if the story would have been
written in third- person, the story would be lost impact on the reader.

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.

“I'd rub my tennis sneakers on the back of my pants and wish my hair wasn't so nappy and the white folks' shirt fit me
better”.

“When I played the drums in high school, it was for Helene, and when I broke track records in college, it was for Helene,
and when I started standing behind microphones and heard applause, I wished Helene could hear it too”.

“The teacher thought I was stupid. Couldn't spell, couldn't read, couldn't do arithmetic. Just stupid”

I think that the narrative would be different without those explanations because with this information the reader can
understand better the situation and imagine how it would be. Also, I think that specific details are important to catch the
reader’s attention and continue reading.