I think you just have to read the poem.
It was the African-American's civil rights. During the baseball integration, the blacks were barred to play in the game. There was a very clear line between blacks and white that were not even allowed to buy houses and enrolled in schools, but it was change. In the baseball integration, Jackie Robinson break the baseball's color line and was even perceive as the America's one of the most iconic and inspiring stories.<span />
Victome lowers the rent of the apartment because of his kindness and generosity.
Explanation:
'An accursed house' is a story which is written by the French writer Emile Gabriau. The story is a critical study of the society and our understanding of human greed.
When Victome acquires his great uncle''s inheritance and with it the apartment in question, he decides to lower the high rent that is extracted from it so as to make it more affordable for people to live there.
Be cause people take his generosity for shady behavior, they wonder if something is wrong with the apartment and then the story goes wrong for Victome.