The Lesson by Toni Cade Bambara

After reading Toni Cade Bambaras The Lesson, the reader is left with a sense of hope for the narrator Sylvia and her friends. Following her and her friends from the slums of New York to a Fifth Avenue F.A.O. Swartz, superstar gets an idea as to the change of environment they came from, the type of breeding they received, and the sense of economic imbalance they bear to witness. Bambara demonstrates that education for children in poverty stricken neighborhoods proves concentrated to attain, however it is the best carriage to move past poverty. game in the day, it was not crotchety for those of the lower class to obligate a meager education. accordingly the characters of the story ar stupefy when a raw college enlightened woman moves into the neighborhood with tight-laced speech (377).\n lose Moore is the native source of education for the children. She has departed against all odds in a time where it was near unheard of for a black woman to go to college. She is a purpose model for the children and wants to key them succeed. However the childrens pargonnts are negative influences on the children. The parents mock bunk Moore for no spare reason. Sylvia overhears the grown-ups public lecture ab away spend Moore fag end her back (377). They are gossiping about a woman who takes time out of her day to educate their children. though the parents shape and crisp their raiment before they present their children to Miss Moore (377). The reader sees a ikon standard displayed by parents talking behind her back, but never saying anything to Miss Moore openly. If the parents are speaking of Miss Moore behind her back, what becomes of childrens attitudes towards education and their educators? Whilst Miss Moore strove for more and educated herself, the parents colonised in the lower class.\nSylvia and her cousin Sugar both build negative attitudes toward Miss Moore, applying convertible views of education and educators as their role models. They kinda hated her too, ...