Helene Tucker's I Became Her Target

Richard's family background, from the "Shame" essay, is very difficult. He did not have a daddy. He said they were such a poor family that he had to worked, shining shoes and selling paper, when he was just a kid, to share the bed with five other people, and even eat paste sometimes. On the other hand, the family situation of the essay's narrator "I Became Her Target" is completely different from Richard's. He was not poor, he had a physician step father who bought the best house he could afford for his family. He had different kind of problems than Richard, but still both shared "racist" problems. In my opinion, Helene Tucker had a big influence in Richard's life. Sometimes positively, he used to do things for her, such as going to school, being clean, played the drums, and broke track records in college. All in all, he felt that he had to try being always better to get her attention. Even though she was like an inspiration for him, he felt even more ashamed for himself when he realized that Helene felt sorry about him, and that is not positive at all. …show more content…
In Richard's one the teacher was mean and hurtful. She made Richard remain ridiculous in front of the entire class and city, because after a couple of days everyone knew what she had told him. Thus, Richard did not want to go to class anymore nor nobody watched him. In contrast with, the professor from the other essay was totally the opposite. She tried her best from the very beginning to make the kid feels like home and that was important. Although people called her with an awkward nickname, she felt pleasure to help a boy being part of his school. What we have learned from these differences is that they are going to be any kind of different people in the world (good ones, bad ones, weird ones, hateful ones...), but we have to deal with that, and try our best to do not make bad comments affect