NOT POOR Just Broke

NOT POOR, JUST BROKE
By: DICK GREGORY
Page: 46
1. Pregnant people get strange tastes. I was pregnant with poverty. Pregnant with dirt and pregnant with smells that made people turn away, pregnant with cold and pregnant with shoes that were never bought for me, pregnant with other five people in my bed and no daddy in next room, and pregnant with hunger. Paste doesn’t taste too bad when you’d hungry. Why do you think the author compare Richard’s situation to the pennant’s situation?
2. Answer: Personally, the author might have wanted to make the meaning of each sentence more important or stronger by adding the word ‘pregnant’ in order to describe how hard he really was in that situation. That’s why, the author compared Richard’s situation to the pennant’s situation. For instance, Richard was pregnant with poverty meant he did hate to live in a poor condition. Plus, he had an aversion to living with dirt and having bad smells which made others turn away from him, and he truly needed to live in a comfortable house. He really wanted new shoes, and also he seriously didn’t want live in a single-parent family. He needed a daddy and had enough food to eat.
3. Fill in the table below with the information from the text. What happened to Richard Gregory during the following periods of time?
Richard Gregory
Events and Achievements
7 years old
When he was about seven years old, he got his first lesson. Meanwhile, he fell in love with one girl named Helene Tucker.
High school age
He played the drums in high school; it was Helene.
College age
He broke track records in college and started standing behind microphones; it was for Helene too.
29 years old
He married and had his own carrier, yet his wife was not Helene.

4. What is the symbol of the mackinaw?
White’s perspective
Black’s perspective
Mackinaws were gifts which were given only those children who were poor and didn’t have daddies. Hence, when some of the white saw the mackinaw, they might have felt pity on those children, but some might not. They disliked those kids because they thought those children were bad and had no value.
Mackinaws made the black felt ashamed, embarrassed and painful. Whenever they wore the mackinaws, everybody knew that they came from poor families and didn’t have daddies.