Everybody Hates Chris Analysis

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2.Growing up I watched a show called "Everybody Hates Chris" I really love this show because it had a significance meaning behind it all. This show presents both social class and social mobility.His social class is being poor. Social mobility is being showed when they modernized their lifestyle by moving out of the projects to live in an all white neighborhood. It was difficult for chris to adapt because he was colored and was treated unfairy. His brother and sister were able to get an education in their old neighborhood while he had to go to a school called Brooklyn beach which was a poor neighborhood on the other side of his town. He's mother felt that him going to a white school will provide him with a better education. He had big responsiblities

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