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Flavio's Home By Gordon Parks

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Flavio’s home
Flavio’s home is a short story written by Gordon parks. Which is about when he had went on a trip to Rio De Janerio which is a very poor country. The story of flavio’s home starts off with Parks stating “Never lost my fierce grudge with poverty” and how “in my wonderings I attack it whenever I can”. The story continues as he was walking one day by catacumba that was were he had found flavio de Silvio a young boy he had looked extremely thin and he was coughing with a tin bucket on his head trying to catch his breath. Than he states that he will never forget the smile that flavio had gave him. This story is mainly about how much people are affected by poverty in different countries and how it effects the human emotionally and
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