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Shame By Dick Gregory

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In the essay “shame,” by Dick Gregory, he writes about his life growing up through school trying to get this one girl’s attention who he had a crush on he would try to become he friend by being friends with her parents, giving her presents, and doing favors for her. Towards the end of the story the teacher gave Gregory a lesson in shame by embarrassing him in front of the whole class which was his whole world causing him to very seldom return.
The essay was a narrative that was used to inform the reader of his childhood. Gregory was trying to tell about his experiences growing up and to inform the reader how school was when he was a child. The author used a narrative to show he had a firsthand experience with the information he telling and

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