Journal entry shame and DOI

The stories are not similar in the way they are written, but the meaning of it is the same. In the story the daughter of Invention, the daughter feels out of place and not accepted because she is foreign and new. In the story Shame the boy also wants to be accepted, not only is he black, but he also is missing a daddy. The stories both go on and end in different ways were one story they learn to accept themselves and the other they don't.