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    Summary: In "The Lesson" story by Toni Cade Bambara is describe the experience of the children about a social class in life to have lessons for maturity. In begin of the story, the appearance of Ms. Moore's is a big influence for those children. They are meeting her during the summer time and having an opportunity to learn a precious lesson from her. But the narrator Sylvia is a strong opinion girl; she makes everyone is agreed with her idea and ignores Ms. Moore opinion when she tried to teach

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    In her short story, “The Lesson,” Toni Cade Bambara presents the idea that stubbornness can have so much power over a person, that they refuse to mature and to see the good others can do for them. Throughout the story, it is shown that Sylvia is so blinded by her stubbornness that she does not want to learn from someone who is different from her. Sylvia is a defiant individual with a nasty attitude and big ego. She is overly confident and thinks that she knows everything, so she refuses to listen

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    usually most children depends on parents so it is hard to understand the real world for them. Therefore, they thinks the world is perfect, yet they do not know what life will brings in the future. In the articles “The Lesson” written by Toni Cade Bambara and “The Flowers” written by Alice Walker both shows an analysis of both stories inform the readers that innocence will fracture sooner or later. Both the stories realized the real world at the end of the stories but Myop perceived it by stepping

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    In the story “The Lesson” by Toni Cade Bambara, Sylvia's reluctant point of view showed her youth making her unable to fully embrace Miss Moore’s lesson. The first sentence of this story introduces us to Sylvia's point of view when she says “Back in the days when everyone was old and stupid or young and foolish and me and Sugar were the only ones just right.” This gives the reader a strong idea as to how Sylia views herself and other people. The reader gets the impression that Sylvia thinks that

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    In “The Story of an Hour” by Kate Chopin and “The Lesson” by Toni Cade Bambara, symbolism is included to represent the main characters and how they changed throughout each story. Mrs. Mallard in “The Story of an Hour” transforms into a more independent woman, whereas Sylvia in “The Lesson” discovers humility in herself. In “The Story of an Hour,” Mrs. Mallard’s independence is represented by her window, the armchair, and the season of spring. In “The Lesson,” Sylvia’s transformation is symbolized

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    The Lesson by Toni Cade Bambara Essay

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    Toni Cade Bambara addresses how knowledge is the means by which one can escape out of poverty in her story The Lesson. In her story she identifies with race, economic inequality, and literary epiphany during the early 1970’s. In this story children of African American progeny come face to face with their own poverty and reality. This realism of society’s social standard was made known to them on a sunny afternoon field trip to a toy store on Fifth Avenue. Through the use of an African American protagonist

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    such as poverty, discrimination, or lawlessness, and who try to correct the injustice. From the short stories I have read in class, one of the main characters named Sylvia has to deal with these issues in the short story “The Lesson” by Toni Cade Bambara. In this short story, Sylvia is troubled by the class inequality around her and deems it unfair and unjust. Sylvia becomes aware of the injustice when her teacher Miss. Moore begins to introduce it through her lessons. Sylvia lives in a poor neighborhood

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    New York is a city known for its rich culture, which has been influenced by many factors. The city has been used as the setting for many stories. One of these stories is "Raymond's Run," written by Toni Cade Bambara. It is set in the 1960s–1970s Manhattan and is centered around a young runner named Hazel Elizabeth Deborah Parker (nicknamed Squeaky), the narrator of the short story. The effect of linguistic devices on the reader's impression of her in "Raymond's Run" includes slang usage to describe

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    The Power of Personality in Toni Cade Bambara’s The Lesson Developing character is something that comes with time. I believe that there are three major things that effect how people develop their character—where they are from, which includes their financial status; how they are raised; and the character of the people that  have had the most influence on their lives. Sylvia, in Toni Cade Bambara’s "The Lesson," is very much influenced by all of these factors. Sylvia’s living in the slums and

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    The story “The Lesson” by Toni Cade Bambara, is themed on education and enlightenment. Thechildren of the story though are literate but they are not educated about so many aspects of life.Their teacher Ms. Moore tries to impart education among them by letting them experience theanomalies in the society and letting them conclude about it. I think in the end she is successful inher endeavors.Bambara has tried to show that education is not just getting bookish knowledge, sittinginside the closed wall

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