Two characters that caught my attention in “The Lesson” are Sylvia and Mercedes. Firstly, Sylvia doesn’t want to go to the store at all and doesn’t even know why she’s going as she knows she doesn’t belong there. She has a feeling of shame when Miss Moore urges the children to go inside and has the shame of being lower class, hating Miss Moore for even taking her. Sylvia doesn’t understand why people buy such expensive toys as she sees such an expensive one but then sees one that’s $35 that she likes but realizes the money used on it can help her family instead. On the other hand, Mercedes wasn’t surprised by the prices of the toys and she’s already an upper-class girl and it’s normal for her. She knows more of the items than the other kids as she has expensive things and it’s nothing to her. She wants to come again with her birthday money and buy more toys and it’s like a shrug on the shoulder for her, nothing expensive really.
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Hi Christian,
I also chose to talk about Sylvia and Mercedes. It is interesting to me that Sylvia seemed very bothered by the store out of anyone else, especially since it’s just a toy store. I mentioned the same thing you said how Sylvia realizes that the money could be used for more important things. I also find it captivating how you stated that it was “like a shrug on the shoulder for her” because it did look like that throughout the time they were there. Mercedes was sort of like this nonchalant person and was the complete opposite of how Sylvia acted.
Hi Christian, I’ve chosen Syliva and Mercades also. They both has totally different opinions in the lesson Miss Monroe was teaching. What Sylvia got out of the lesson was that this world isn’t equal, and Mercades had not understood the lesson because all she wanted to do was be like the “rich people”. Sylvia had to go outside her own environment just to see that it isn’t equality in this world.