Jessica Pemberton, Discussion 4

In “The Lesson”, the two characters I want to compare are Mercedes and Sylvia. Their characters had a different experience in the lesson that Miss. Moore was trying to teach them. Mercedes didn’t see the lesson because she out of the group had the most money the the only one that had a desk at home. On the other hand, Sylvia realizes that there was no equality in the world. Sylvia realized that in order to afford these expensive toys, you’ll have to be like the who’re people or live like them, but for Mercedes she wanted to be like the white people, seeing no wrong in what she learned. This story is what I can relate to because me being in the “hood” I never realized the inequality in the world because everyone around me had the same. It was until I went out of my neighborhood to travel to school was when I seen the difference and mine and other neighborhoods. And also social media had open my eyes that in the “ rich or suburban” neighborhoods had more than mines. They had “better”. They they buy things that I wouldn’t even touch because what was taught in the “hood” was to be cautious on what you spend. Sylvia was right when she stated “…this is not much of a democracy if you ask me.”