Lesson a Story Respond Term Paper

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Toni Cade Bambara's short story "The Lesson," a newcomer to the neighborhood named Miss Moore, a woman obviously better off than the rest of the families in the neighborhood, takes children on a field trip into midtown Manhattan, where they visit FAO Schwarz and gradually realize that some people have a great deal more money than they do. Miss Moore is trying to teach the children to make sure they understand that wealth is not evenly divided but that they can have more if they work for it. The incidents in the story, narrated by an unnamed child, show that the narrator's best friend, Sugar, has begun to learn the lesson Miss Moore had to offer them, but the unnamed narrator may not have.

The lesson in economy is emphasized by the name of the teacher, Miss "Moore.
" She dresses better than others in the neighborhood, and has money to spend on luxuries such as taxis. She asks the children what they know about money before….....

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