Knowledge and Poverty in The Lesson by Toni Cade Bambara

Toni Cade Bambara talks about how knowledge removes poverty in her storybook. In her story, she identified race, economic inequality, and literary epiphany in the early 1970s. In this story, African-American children face their own poverty and reality. In the afternoon field survey to the toy shop on Fifth Avenue, they learned about the social standard of this social reality. By using Mr. Moore and the opponent Silvia as the hero of the African American, he became the second hero afterwards and the opponent of the white society "learning" was taught ironically.

Toni Cade Bambara's 'Course' is not just racial and economic inequality, but it emphasizes important topics that can not be obtained by itself. Toni Cade Bambara talked about unfairness in life and people learned the importance of being willing to learn new things. Toni Cade Bambara depicts that people need to resist the tendency of people to shape the mind of the learning process while choosing to use his protagonist in "Course" to make this process effective in subconscious mind To do.

Author: Bobby Ann Mason, Toni Cade Bambara words wrote "Lessons" and Langston Hughes postponed his dream. All these concern values, ethics, beliefs, customs, so I chose these works. The story "Shiloh" is about the community / couple who feel they have different values, ethics, beliefs, and Toni Cade Bambara's "course" relates to teachers who are about to change the community youth Thing. Questions are raised on the values ​​and proposals for the results are offered

"Course" of Toni Cade Bambara is one step ahead of Alger. Banbala analyzed the class differences. It is based on the fact that classes affect individual identity. Bambara expresses this by various categories and realizes it by extending slight differences. From the beginning, it was the story of the first person, and this story is more reliable. "Dick in clothes" is fictitious, "learning" comes from experience. This story was written by the eyes of a young junior girl Sylvia. Sylvia and her "cousin" live in a poor apartment. During the usual outing with Mr. Moore, they were first exposed to classroom differences. Mr. Moore handed them to F.A.O. Schwartz to confirm the price. When Silvia encounters a $ 195 equivalent yacht, they will be hit by reality.

Toni Cade Bambara's short story "The Lesson" was held in downtown New York. Sylvia, the hero, is a 14 year old African-American girl who tells stories in the first person's story. Sylvia mentioned Miss Moore, a teacher who believes her responsibility to help lesson children learn. Miss Moore felt lessons learned from a very expensive luxury toy store in FAO Schwarz, at the heart of Manhattan. Moore took her children to FAO Schwarz for symbolism by Bambara. Miss Moore uses FAO Schwartz's toys to convey the position of children in social ladders.