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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 experience?

It helps me to understand how he felt in this moment. He used common vocabulary to people can understand
his story and what he wanted to say.

6. How does society 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?

I think that rich people stablish their trends trough Capitalism. Poor people cannot follow those stablished
trends. That’s why rich people start to discriminate people who cannot be the same as them.

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

When I was a child, I had an illness in my skin. It made me look like leper. Even this illness wasn’t
contagious, nobody wanted to stay by me. I understand Gregory because he felt himself different and
insignificant. And this problem that I had helped me to understand that it doesn’t matter how you look like.
What really matter is what you have in your brain.

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

I think that Dick Gregory could be considered an outlier because he was black, poor, and fatherless. But also
for his personality, rebelliousness, and his desire to excel.