Rhetorical Analysis Essay for "Shame" by Dick Gregory
Writer, activist, and comedian, Dick Gregory, in his narrative, “Shame,” recounts a personal story of social class discrimination and shame. Gregory’s purpose is to reflect on a lesson of how discrimination can be experienced in places such as school.. Gregory achieves his purpose by employing the rhetorical devices repetition, resentful tone, and imagery. Dick Gregory uses repetition throughout his narrative to convey his message of shame. In paragraph 5, he illustrates a negative and resentful scene by continuously stating the things e was pregnant with. He stated that he was “pregnant with poverty” and “no daddy in the next room,” to show the severity of his social class situation. Repetition was used in this narrative to emphasize the hardships he faced, each having a negative effect on him. He uses the word pregnant to explain these hardships, things he had to deal with but can’t do anything about them. He couldn’t be clean, buy new shoes, or have better living