The author is deeply embarrassed the next day in school because when the fire broke out, he was still wearing the dress he had worn to church that morning but he had no shoes as he had lost them in the fire. So he had to borrow some tennis shoes from his aunt. He was totally embarrassed by everything.
The clothes he was wearing looked weird, he had no books or homework, and his backpack was gone. Words used in the lesson that show his fear and insecurity are ‘outcast’, ‘geek’, ‘curl up and die’ ‘had my life in that backpack’ ‘zombie’, ‘surreal’ and ‘security … ripped away’.
