Discrimination Experience In Richard's Story Shame

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Who have an discrimination experience in school or any community? Who knows any person get shame because she or he is poor or living in poverty? Richard had this experience in his early years of school in this story "Shame". Shame is feeling of regret, sadness or embarrassment that someone has. Richard had it abnormal in the elementary school. He lived in poor family. He did not have father and his mother was working a lot, so he grew up with his siblings. He had only a pair of clothes that he washed hardly and wore. His teacher made him to sit in the idiot chair because his teacher thought he is stupid because he could not read but his teacher never understood he did not have breakfast so he could not concentrate in the class. society acted

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