Rich versus Poor in The Lesson by Toni Cade Bambara

In Toni Cade Bambara's "The Lesson", when you start reading it, the story looks a little linear. At first it was a naive girl named Silvia, and a naive and rebellious character of Miss Moor. But you learned later that this story is much more than you originally expected. A seemingly meaningless quarrel between Sylvia and Miss Moore has a deeper meaning. The solution of the conflict between Sylvia and Miss Moore shows a struggle as to whether Sylvia should learn something. Because it is for her to accept and accept whether it is a weak point for her or whether Miss Moore is about to teach her. .

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.

Inequality in wealth distribution is a big problem in our society. The poor become poor and the richer become richer. In lessons? Among them, the author Toni Cade Bambara hated Moore's main character Sylvia, so the difference between the right that was economically deprived and the wealthy people by Moore's teaching and how to use the word "slam" I told you. For Sylvia and the neighbor where her friend lives, Sylvia is aware that she is poor and inferior. The story in 1972 reveals that even though African Americans realized civil rights in the late 1960s, there was no equal opportunity for blacks. Sylvia's comment on Miss Moore's diaper hair also shows how the white man defines beauty by making blacks feel silky hair and straight hair. Like a novel about a girl named Pecora by Tony Morrison, Sylvia believes that white features define beauty.

In Toni Cade Bambara's short story "The Lesson", Bambara shows a women's attempt to show inequality we refer to a group of poor black children as an equality society. In the story after the Second World War, in the story, a group of black children were taken to the "field survey" of New York's luxury district - Fifth Avenue, Caucasian main shopping area - It was. The guide for the excursion was a smart young black woman with a college degree called Missmoor. Moore lives near a child and is in charge of educating children.