What Cause People to Have Shame? What is shame? According to the New International Webster’s Pocket Dictionary of the English Language shame means, “a painful feeling caused by a sense of guilt, unworthiness, impropriety, etc.” Another definition is “a person or thing causing disgrace or humiliation.” I’m going to use the first definition in this paper. There are a lot of thing that causes people to be ashamed. When shame shows up in …showed first 75 words of 780 total…

…showed last 75 words of 780 total…through. In other words she should have been honest with her friend. She was so shame that she had lost her friend’s necklace that she wanted to hide it from here so that she wouldn’t think that she was a careless person In conclusion, shame can affect us in many ways. In this paper I talked about how shame causes people to be unhappy, to feel guilty, and to hide things from others.