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A 3 page paper which examines families in Dick Gregory’s Shame and Randall Williams’ Daddy Tucked the Blanket. No additional sources cited.
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childhood memories that were less than pleasant. Both individuals are recalling times and events that involve being poor and being ashamed to some extent. They are powerful stories that clearly
haunt the author as adults. Both stories also offer up perspectives of families. The following paper examines how the children develop their own sense of worth that has little or
nothing to do with their families. Family in Short Stories In the first reading of Shame there seems to be very little reference to family. The boy is poor
and he does mention his family now and then but the main focus of the story is his love of a little girl and then how he became shamed in
the end. In the first reading of Daddy Tucked the Blanket the author speaks with embarrassment about his family, almost as though he is trying to make the reader see
that his family was good, but poor. He does not really present his family as being supportive of him. In essence, neither story seems to offer a family that is
supportive. In the second reading of the two a deeper understanding comes of how little the family really influences or teaches the children in relationship to a positive identity.
Gregory talks about how his mother got angry when he threw out a free coat and Williams speaks of how his parents loved the kids, but perhaps not one another.
In both stories the reader can see a very strong distance between the narrator and their parents, as though their parents really had no influence on their childhood and the
important events of their childhood. In a first reading of Gregorys story the reader sees that the boys entire focus is on the girl. In the first reading of
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