Robert Wolfe edited a collection of essays titled, An American Mosaic:

Robert Wolfe edited a collection of essays titled, An American Mosaic: Prose and Poetry by Everyday Folk. This book is a collection of stories from homeless people. In the story we read, Mince lurches from one awful event to another, desperately struggling to make sense of it all. He frames these events by comparing his situation to the brutal repression of the student protests in Tiananmen Square in China in 1989 (see p. 67 paragraphs 1 & 2.) He uses this framework of repression to understand his own experience.

Discussion Question

Read the .pdf copy of the Mince interview below and address the following question:

Why does Mince compare his situation as a homeless person living in the United States to the repression of the protesters at Tiananmen Square in China?

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