Gregory's "Shame"

Prejudice has always played a strong role in history. People have been ridiculed based on race, sex, social class, corporeal attributes and for m some(prenominal) other reasons. Shame is not limited to any one type of person. Dick Gregorys Shame is a narration of his childhood and how shame affected his life; and, although our lives do not seem similar on the surface, he and I share the bond of humiliation experienced in our childhoods.

        Gregory was a poor, fatherless, stern boy, who constantly strived to prove himself to others. His family had no money for forage or clothing. He had one issuefit to wear to groom each day. There was no running water in their home because the pipes would constantly freeze, but, in order to impress a girl that he liked very much, he washed his clothing every night with melted ice. Gregory often got disconsolate because the fire would go out at night earlier the clothes were dry. He combed his hair carefully every day and always tried to keep a blame appearance. However, no matter what Gregory attempted to do, he was not precondition a chance to be anyone but a poor, black boy.

        In school, Gregory always had to sit in a finical seat in the back of the classroom, the idiots seat, the troublers seat.



Teachers were never interested in finding out that you couldnt concentrate because you were so hungry, because you hadnt had any breakfast. When he tried to be like his other classmates who brought money hebdomadal from their fathers for the Community Chest, his teacher scolded him. She told him to stop playing games, and said, we know you beginnert have a Daddy. This ridiculing caused Gregory to leave school, and not decrease for a very long time.

        Gregory was surrounded...

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