Lesson
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The story "The Lesson" by Toni Cade Bambara includes a character that must reassess her self-concept and her relationship to the world around her. Through out the story, the character is learning the way things actually are in reality. The epiphany that the character went through in the story was very similar to something I went through when I was an adolescent.
In "The Lesson" the character Sylvia, a young stubborn girl, came to an epiphany when under going a lesson from her neighbor, Miss Moore. In the beginning of the story she starts off by judging people, already putting people into a certain class. Sylvia states that she laughs at the junk man and hated the winos that stunk up her hallways. Sylvia puts herself in a higher class then these people. One day, the neighbor Miss Moore, rounded up all the neighborhood kids and brought them to the city for a life lesson. As they were walking down the street Sylvia say's that Miss more was talking about "What things cost and what our parents make and how much goes for rent and how money ain't divided up right in this country."(135) And she then continued to say that "We all poor and live in the slums...