The Lesson :: Analysis, Toni Cade Bambara

end-to-end hi tier knowledge, culture and information has been passed down within communities. Life lesson were oftentimes taught by older, wiser or formally educated people within the union. This mood still holds true today, especially in low-income communities as illustrated in the myopic story The Lesson by Toni Cade Bambara. I am led to believe that story took place in a low-income association in the early to mid-sixties as African-American families travel to find better opportunities, when extended families moved north as groups and then spreading out into their respective community (507). Miss Moore, who had obtained a college education, assumed this role within her community by saying it was only right that she should take responsibility for the young angiotensin-converting enzymes education (507). Initially the lesson of the day was the value of m unrivaledy, but readily evolved into several diffe teardrop lessons for the children in attendance that day.Miss Moore sw allows her lesson by place a plant in the minds of the children in the form of small prate such as what things cost, how much their parents made, how much they spent on rent and how m peerlessy was not divided up right in this province (508). This got the children thinking about the money that ordinary people within their community spent on everyday survival. Their field trip brings them to a depict Fifth Avenue toy store F.A.O Schwartz (512), where they admire toys form the window. The children begin to notice the outlandish prices that the toys were being sold for, which further waters the seed embedded in their little minds earlier. Their eyes settled on a sailboat displayed in the window. Its outrageous price tag read, one mebibyte one hundred ninety-five dollars (510). Shocked and taken back they could not believe that anyone would pay that much money to entertain a child, one child immediately asked, This boat for Kids, Miss Moore? (510). This growing seed in their min ds sparks the question of, why some people can dedicate such expensive toys and not others, as they enter the store. As they coating in the toy store and get home, Miss Moore prods the children to see if they had grasped the lesson as she intended. Sugar, one of the children spoke and said You know, Miss Moore, I dont think all of us here put together fertilise in a year what that sailboat costs (512). Miss Moore was stir to find that the message of social inequality had been relayed to at least one of the children.