The authors purpose behind “show and tell” was to demonstraite how outcasts were treated during the time of the Vietman war. Before reading this story, most people would be unaware of how poorly Vietnimese refuges were treated during this wartime. Some of the classmates who were brought up a certain way treated the new student with respect, where as others took a new volnorable student as an oportunity to crack some jokes. The author was trying to show how positive treatment towards the new student, Cal, would result in lookig like the hero in the story. Robert talked to Cal and even gave him some vulgar words that he could use to defend himself. “So I said, OK Mr. K but I leaned over and whispered hey fuckheads leave me alone again in the
