"Shame" VS "The Daughter of Invention"

  Let's just put an overview of both stories here: "Shame" is about a black child who learns shame through not having a father, and being on state assistance. "Daughter of Invention" is about a family who moved from a communist country to America, still adapting to their freedom. In the story the girl has to write a speech and announce it at her school. She finishes her speech and her father gets angered at her and essentially makes her feel terrible for writing a speech that would have gotten her in trouble in her old country, but not in America.

  Now that we've gotten that, lets take a moment to analyze what they have in common:

1. In both stories, they are taught humiliation of their ways
2. They are both outcasts in the social pyramid
3. Both experiences caused them to look at life in a different point of view
4. They both take place in the mid 1900's