The author of “Growing up White Trash” uses her personal experience to demonstrate how society wrongly shames the lower class. For example, she describes how being surrounded by people of higher economic classes impacted her: “I suddenly realized that my new friends had been looking down on me. I changed the way I dressed. I started making new friends who hadn’t known me since I was little … I would even lie about my dog.”.(Heather O’Neil) Because her new high school friends looked down on her, she believed that the way she grew up was shameful and even inferior. So, she completely changed…