Indledning
Everyone loves a good story and in recent years, audiobooks have become the hippest. Some books entertain the reader, while others will teach the reader something. To learn something about music, you open up a music book, to learn something about mathematics, you open a math book and to learn about history, you open a history book.
However, it's just not all you can find in a history book. The history books are factual, but they don't tell the personal stories.
American satirist Dick Gregory 1writes in his essay "Shame" from the collection "Nigger" from 1964 what it was like to grow up in the United States as black and poor.
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Uddrag
Gregory uses a direct language that everyone can understand. Several times in the text he uses con- tractions of the words, and it gives a feeling, that what he writes comes directly from the heart. As an example he says, "If I knew my place and didn't come too close, she'd wink at me and say hello."
The fact that he uses contractions makes the difference between him and Helene bigger too, and makes the description he gives of her, even more like a symbol of hope .
You always hope for the best, no matter how likely it is to happen.
Another place in the text where Gregory describes his "state" is in paragraph 5 and 6. Among other things, he uses anaphora to emphasize everything he can't,“Couldn’t spell, couldn’t read, couldn’t to arithmetic”.
By listing it up in this way it seems like the teacher saw him as not much more than a figure and it leaves the reader with the feeling that no matter how hard he tried he could not change the way the teacher saw him. In the play, he also uses rhetorical questions to get the reader closer to him.
We really get to feel what it felt like to be hungry and we all know the feeling that you just have to have something to eat.
Gregory's contractions of words also continue in this section along with his use of anaphora.
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