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Racism throughout his childhood.

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The main idea of this story is about the shame of growing up in a world of shame. A world were he would be treated badly but him thinking it was ok at his age.

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One big idea in the story that now i can see is that Richard was a hard working little kid and started working at the age of 7.

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That people who struggles with poverty get treated very badly

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the theme of the story might've been about poverty because he never had much

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that dick doesn't have a daddy and feels ashamed/ and his life growing up was much more difficult than ours

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The theme was his experiences with racism throughout his life

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We all shared what we thought and our opinions about the story.

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Growing up with little money

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the idea is richard is the only student/boy who cant really afford what most of the childern have so he is lonley and in love and have no one to look up to

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the discussion helped us see different point of views and different intakes of what the story was about

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One big idea of the story is that people who live in poverty get treated poorly.

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He will stand up for himself and he is going to be noticed more also realize who is really there for him.

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the discussion brought more light to certain parts of the story when the group members explained why they thought that was the most powerful part

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The story or Message it's trying to get through to everyone is that shame really affects people and even if you don't see people in need all the time, people around the world struggle like he did everyday.

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I think that he will chase the respect that he deserves and will make sure that his voice is heard.

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The big idea of the story is that he struggles a lot because of racism and being broke .

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nobody likes him not even the students and the teacher except for a girl that he liked felt bad for him and he is feeling a little blue about that

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A way our discussion helped me understand the story better is i understand that its not OK to judge someone by how they look

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How much he adored people for what they had.

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we thought that the discussion help further explain the story

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He doesn't have a dad, his dad never cared and never will.

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I'm predicting that the rest of the autobiography will be about how the traumatic experience he had at 7 change him as a person.

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he never grew up in a wealthy family without a father figure

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Richard is trying to be and fit in with the rest of the children. As well he is telling us his life struggles.

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I think that he's going to tell his family members about what the teacher said in front of the class

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I predict that because of the shame his teacher brought on him i think in the future its gonna make him stronger

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we didn't talk about the way the teacher treated him or how he felt at school

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helped me understand the points in the story i was confused about

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That Racism will stop for good one da

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We never talked about how his mom beat him after he threw his uniform away and I think that's really important

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he wont let peoples words affect him again and he will grow to be successful

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Richard will end up with his beloved girl and he will be something great in life to show all the people who showed hate towards him.

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he' going to talk about how he got famous.

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Hearing other people's own ideas about how the story is more about poverty than race helped me understand the story better.

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we covered mostly everything

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i think hes going to try and change in a good way because of what happend in class

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Our group left out how much love he had for Helene Tucker

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We didn't talk about how the way dick's teacher talked to him wasn't necessary.

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i think that he will be depressed for a while and not go to school but then just go later on

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Something we didn't discuss was that discrimination against colors

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we left out how did he feel about the story.and what we thought Richard could of done diffrent

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how the teacher thought he didn't have the $15 and shaming him down

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we didn't talk about his obsession with this girl that is not very healthy he needs that money

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we didn't talk about how the teacher treated him.