TKAM Ch. 20

I most realized "the simple hell that people give other people without even thinking" one day during my science class last year. We were supposed to be doing some bookwork, but most people were just sitting around and talking. I was trying to concentrate on getting my work done, but I happened to hear one kid call another a "dirty Jew" because he had asked to borrow a dollar for lunch. I am Jewish, and I have learned to tolerate a few Jew jokes here and there, but this really offended me. Right in the middle of class, I walked over to his desk and decided to tell him, with a few choice words, just how much this had offended me. I was mostly just in shock, because I didn't think that anyone really said anything like that anymore. I'm sure he'll think twice about what he says from now on.