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  • City Sylvia
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    Analysis of The Lesson The Lesson, by Toni Cade Bambara, is a brief narrative story that captures a turnkey moment in a young girl's life. Sylvia vividly recalls the day she learned a life lesson that was initiated by Miss Moore. The central idea of this story is that actual life experiences are the lessons that make the most impact. Sylvia recollects the day with the mentally of that she would rather go to the pool or to the show where it's cool, than on Miss Moore's educational field trip to t...
  • Miss Moore
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    The Lesson by Toni Cade Bambara Toni Cade Bambara's The Lesson is a very well written piece of history. This is a story from yesterday, when Harlem children didn't have good education or the money to spring for it. Bambara's tale tells about a little girl who doesn't really know how to take it when a good teacher finally does come along. This girl's whole life is within the poverty stricken area and she doesn't see why she must try hard. The teacher, Miss Moore, shows them what it is all about b...
  • Miss Quested And Mrs Moore
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    A Passage to India Passage to India entails various social criticisms and political matters that are among the human race. The setting of the story takes place in India where the British have colonized the city of Chandra pore. The British had no respect for the native culture and race that inhabit this region even thought they were the original inhabitants. Miss Quested and Mrs. Moore begin their passage to India in order to attend the marriage of Miss Quested. Miss Quested plans on being unite...
  • Miss Moore Lives Near The Children
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    Children learn in school about famous Americans like George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, and Martin Luther King who fought to make this the land of freedom, opportunity, and equality for all. They learn about famous documents like the Declaration of Independence which declares that All Men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness. One of the most difficult things about growing up as ...
  • Moore's Destination Sylvia
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    In "The Lesson" Toni Cade Bambara writes about a group of young kids living in a poverty stricken area. Miss Moore, an older woman from the neighborhood who is their teacher, takes the kids on a field trip to F.A.O. Schwartz to see toys that cost as much as the rent that their parents pay. She is trying to show the kids that they too can make every effort in life for the finer things. The story is seen from the point of view of one of the children named Sylvia. Sylvia doesn't really like Miss. M...
  • Moore's Message To Sylvia
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    Fran Pez 3/21/00 The idea in Toni Cade Bambara's "The Lesson " is that in our society (America) An unequal economic system is favor over a true democratic system The "Lesson " is a story by Toni Cade Barbara about a young African American Girl living in the slums of New York City. Sylvia, the main character of the story and Miss Moore the school teacher are the instruments that Bambara uses to convey her message about the unfairness of the economic system in New York. Miss Moore takes Sylvia and...
  • Character Of Eveline
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    Jean Treuthart Character and Point of View The story "A good Man Is Hard to Find' begins, "The grandmother didn t want to go to Florida. ' This immediately informs us that the focus is on this character and at the same time sets up some foreboding. Flannery O Connor takes would could have been a southern tale of family discord and twists it into an intriguing, shocking event. The grandmother is the main character. She commands the attention while her son and daughter-in-law lack definition and a...

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