Shame: Love and Helene Tucker
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Shame
Most of us grow up among different economic classes, and often we understand how we are and what class our family belong to. Richard Greogary learned hate or shame at school when he was 7 years old. He was a poor kid. He worked shining shoes. He was in love with Helene Tucker. Helene Tucker was a symbol of everything you want, her goodness, cleanness and popularity. He went to school mostly to look for her. He had strong felling of love for her. He wanted to looks good and nice in front of her. Helene was very nice with him. But many things happened in the class and Helene was sitting in that classroom. The first thing is that He sat down in the idiot’s seat, troublemaker’s seat, because he was hungry. He couldn’t concentrate. He couldn’t think. The teacher thought he was stupid, couldn’t read, and couldn’t spell. He was a troublemaker. That’s made him ashamed in front of the girl that he loves. The second thing is that a day before the African American’s payday, The teacher asked each student how much his/her father would give to Community Chest. So He decided to give his money from his pocket. But the teacher never called his name. He was confused. He asked the teacher why she forgot to call his name. She turned around and said, “We are collecting this money for you and your kind. If your Daddy can give you $15, you have no business being on relief. And we know you don’t have a Daddy.” (paragraph 20). These words shame the author. From what happened, he felt like all people in the world knew that he didn’t have a daddy. Everywhere he went he felt shame. Everyone felt sorry for me. He thought everyone treated him the same as a poor kid. This essay is about the sense of socioeconomic class. As a kid Richard felt shame in the class when a teacher treated him as a poor kid in front of other kids. This essay teaches us that we should not say mean words with poor kids especially in front of other people.
Shame
Most of us grow up among different economic classes, and often we understand how we are and what class our family belong to. Richard Greogary learned hate or shame at school when he was 7 years old. He was a poor kid. He worked shining shoes. He was in love with Helene Tucker. Helene Tucker was a symbol of everything you want, her goodness, cleanness and popularity. He went to school mostly to look for her. He had strong felling of love for her. He wanted to looks good and nice in front of her. Helene was very nice with him. But many things happened in the class and Helene was sitting in that classroom. The first thing is that He sat down in the idiot’s seat, troublemaker’s seat, because he was hungry. He couldn’t concentrate. He couldn’t think. The teacher thought he was stupid, couldn’t read, and couldn’t spell. He was a troublemaker. That’s made him ashamed in front of the girl that he loves. The second thing is that a day before the African American’s payday, The teacher asked each student how much his/her father would give to Community Chest. So He decided to give his money from his pocket. But the teacher never called his name. He was confused. He asked the teacher why she forgot to call his name. She turned around and said, “We are collecting this money for you and your kind. If your Daddy can give you $15, you have no business being on relief. And we know you don’t have a Daddy.” (paragraph 20). These words shame the author. From what happened, he felt like all people in the world knew that he didn’t have a daddy. Everywhere he went he felt shame. Everyone felt sorry for me. He thought everyone treated him the same as a poor kid. This essay is about the sense of socioeconomic class. As a kid Richard felt shame in the class when a teacher treated him as a poor kid in front of other kids. This essay teaches us that we should not say mean words with poor kids especially in front of other people.