Shame Dick Gregory Analysis

Richard spent most of his life in poverty. Being the child of an absent father and a mother who was struggling to make ends meet with more than one child in the house. At the age of seven while in school Richard falls in love with a girl in Money, define it simply is a medium of exchange. We trade it for things we want or need. Most of us probably don’t look back on the money we spend, mainly because we don’t give it that value. When we do, however, is when we don’t have as much as we would like. Those of us who take it for granted, fail to see that there are some who have spent their whole lives trying to make enough just to put food in their stomachs. The latter was the case of Richard, the boy in the article “Shame” by Dick Gregory. his classroom, Helene Tucker. Head over heels over this girl he would do anything to impress her. He’d wash his uniform every night and go to school just to see her whether his uniform would dry during the night or not. However his financial instability did prove to be a hinderance. His empty stomach would cause him not to pay attention in class and have the teacher label him as dumb in front of the class, making him sit in the “idiot’s seat”, and blaming him for trouble other students would cause. This did
Richard did face many troubles in life, most of them related to his financial condition. He overcame them though. He worked to overcome the shame he felt before and he made something of himself despite having such a traumatising experience at such a young age. So here’s what I think. It’s what you’re made of that matters and what gets you through in the end. As my favourite hip hop artist Marshall Mathers once said “ I’m a be what i set out to be, without a doubt undoubtedly. And all those who look down on me I’m tearing down your