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Author James Gilligan wrote “Shame” to show the relation of shame and violence. His motive is to achieve a better understanding of why people are violent. He creates an authoritative mood

In the book “Shame”, Dick Gregory discusses the humiliation that he felt one day during school when he was a little boy. Gregory was born into poverty and was fatherless. The story shows the hardships that he went through during that time. Being poor effects how people see us and treat others. Overall, it is a life changing experience.

The beginning of this chapter mainly demonstrates the idea of shame towards one's response to change. By using a regretful tone, O'Brien is able to convey the reader to believe that he feels shame and embarrassment towards his actions that are revealed later in the chapter.

The author’s melancholic, yet, optimistic tone arouses mix feelings from his readers. Bragg clouts his readers’ perception of his father with harrowing, however, coveted recollections of the past. In the author’s comparative recount of the Father’s demeanor, he paints an unsettling, yet a hopeful life of his father:

Have you ever felt so ashamed that you have become ashamed of who you are becoming? Shame is always reminding people it is a soul eating disease. For instance, in the book The Kite Runner Baba and Amir are so caught up in their shame they can hardly stand each other. In the beginning of the novel Baba pays no attention to Amir and by the end of the novel Amir realizes why his father paid no attention to him. We can become a changed person by facing our shame and allowing it to remain in the past while we move on to our future.

The characters in the book are starting to ignore the shame. In the book, Chanda tells Mrs.Tafa over the phone, “‘ I’m not ashamed of AIDS! I’m ashamed of being ashamed!’” (181). This shows that people like Chanda are ignoring the shame and doesn’t care about being shamed. She doesn’t care if people judges her. In the book, Mrs.Tafa says, “‘So what? The neighbors will know.’” (181). This shows that not everyone is going to ignore the shame like Mrs.Tafa because they are still afraid of being shamed. This also shows that the shame levels are still high and that many people are still afraid of being shamed. This is how the book shows changes throughout the book about how the characters feel about shame and that the shame levels are slowly

In this novel Taylor is a dynamic character, we see her transform from a young girl who didn’t want to get married or have kids to an independent single mother. In the beginning we get to know her as a self-owned, determined and a stubborn girl who is focused, ambitious and thinks outside the box; because she knows firsthand what is like to see her mother struggle as a single parent. She learned to value every day because pregnancy was like a disease. An example of her considerate outlook is “believe me in those days the girls were dropping by the wayside like seeds off a poppy seed bun and you learned to look at every day as a prize” (3). This small but

Ever since the beginning, in the regards to the biblical belief system, sin has plagued the world. Ever since the woman named Eve took the apple, sin has said existed. Sin has become a ruling factor in certain communities, at the time of the Romans, some sin was considered punishable by death. In the years of the 1500s, a group emerged calling themselves the Puritans. They based their everyday lives around the avoidance of sin. So when one committed a sin he/she was punished. Death, torture, beatings, and public shaming. Shame, it's to have painful feelings of humiliation or distress caused by the consciousness of wrong or foolish behavior. The e of shame is seen many times throughout the texts The Crucible by Arthur Miller and The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne. Both tell stories of men plagued by their sin of adultery and what they do to deal with the guilt they have brought upon themselves. The two go through trials and tribulations, but in the end seem to come to terms with their sin and consequences. But also realize how they've grown from the experience.

The narrator and his father have the kind of relationship where on the surface it might come off as cold because they’re reserved and don’t openly share thoughts and emotions but, underneath it all, the narrator must feel some respect for his father because he still contemplates over the advice his father gave him.

The author of “The scarlet Ibis,” James Hurst, suggests through the actions of his characters and his use of language the theme that too much pride can lead people to do things that can have devastating results. James Hurst quoted, “But all of us must have something or someone to be proud of, and Doodle had become mine.” The narrator has a need to make Doodle better to give himself something to be proud of and receive recognition for his actions. The narrator is talking about an event that happened in the past when he tried to teach his brother, Doodle, to walk. He looks back on it with the insight of an adult who has struggled with the consequences of his prideful actions.

“Confession” is a poem which opens with an artist contemplating the morality of drawing his subjects with all their “defects” in great detail. He continues on by describing the loving attention he gives to each flaw, “I pamper each pimple,hump,massage,each incrustation,” (lines 5-6). Most of the poem consists of Dinh taking the time to account each particularly flawed feature he has unashamedly depicted in his art. These “flaws” on his models do not simply include rashes and other visual defects, but awkward poses and age, “Impossibly old, extremely young - onto appalling heaps,” (lines 11-12). While the narrator in the beginning of the poem seems uncertain if these actions are just, by the end he seems more certain that nevertheless it simply came from a place of doting accuracy or as he claims, “just so I could render the human condition most accurately and movingly,” (lines 14-15).

*a. Shame is a belief that something is wrong with me. (Wilson, Chapter 1, p.16, para.7)

The writing Shame, was taken from Nigger, an autobiography written by Dick Gregory. This narrative was about two childhood experiences that can teach a lesson on how the negative actions of a person can have a profound effect on a person’s life. Gregory tells about two different situations and how they affect his childhood, one in which he has no control over, and the other, where given a choice, he fails to respond.

It is suggested through Micheal Ondaatje’s Running In the Family that Ambiguity is used to convey and express emotion, through murky selective information in Ondaatje’s vignettes to incorporate a window of doubt. This therefore allows the one who expresses ambiguity to retract their first thought if it where proven to be incorrect. However, when ambiguity is used in excess where the one displaying ambiguity is leading the other to an improper conclusion, the ambiguity causes frustration instead of the original thought in where the one displaying ambiguity no longer can retract there statement while also damaging the perception of mystery and excitement. Mr. Ondaatje’s presented through his father to the reader in a way where excitement and mystery are the predominant traits seen; where the start is exciting and

“Shame corrodes the very part of us that believes we are capable of change”(Brené Brown). In The Scarlet Letter, by Nathaniel Hawthorne, a woman is publicly shamed for having a child with a man who is not her husband. Another example of public shame can be seen in modern day articles “Florida ‘Scarlet Letter’ Law is Repealed by Gov. Bush,” by Dana Canedy, and “Houston Couple Gets ‘The Scarlet Letter’ Treatment.” Both talk of public shame that people have had to endure in the present day. Public shaming is not an effective punishment because it is a cruel and unusual punishment, it does not deter crime, and it can emotionally traumatize the one being shamed.