Miss Moore is trying to teach the students about the injustice of her country. She took the students to the toy store so they knew how some people could afford to buy things that would cost them their food money for the year. She wanted the kids to learn a lesson about how unfair their country is. She was like a role model for the students. Sylvia is the story’s main character who’s telling the story from her point of view. She tells us how she doesn’t like her teacher, Miss Moore. Sylvia tells us how she thought the toy story was too expensive and why people would buy the toys for too much money. Even though Sylvia and the other students talk behind the teacher’s back and do not appreciate what she has done for them, she still tries her best to teach the students a lesson.
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As i was reading Araby, I realized this was a sad story. This young boy who was in love for his friends sister but have no idea what those feelings were, she wasn’t even paying any attention to him, she spoke to him once because she was asking him if he will go to Araby, but he fantasizes about her and wanted to buy her a gift if she goes to the bazaar. He said “her image accompanied me even in places the most hostile to romance” I think that he daydream about her a lot, he couldn’t get her out of his head. He was so excited to go to the bazaar to buy her a gift, but he was also depending on his uncle for money and a ride. His uncle forgot about the bazaar got back late but he still went but everything was closing but the things he was looking at as a gift for her were to much money.
This story was intensely emotional. When the boy describes his environment, it seems to revolve mostly around how it effects him. He describes dark/night as gloomy and lonely. When the evening arrives, he describes the homes in his neighborhood as sombre. It feels like he is looking for something that brings him joy. In the beginning, he explained how he liked a book, “The memoirs of vidocq” not because of it’s literary content but because of it’s yellow leaves. When there is mention of light, whether it be through windows or the light that created the shadow of Mangan’s sister, the tone of the writing seemed more uplifted. It’s almost as though he associated the girl he was infatuated with, with the light. With a positive feeling. As he walked through the market area’s with his aunt, he explained that he imagined that he had bore his chalice safely through a throng of foes. Which sounds to me like he was able to maintain his sanity while strolling the amalgamation of sounds that he didn’t find pleasant or enjoyable. He seems to be very in tuned with his senses. I felt as though he may have been going through anxiety, loneliness and connected his feelings to the world around him. He seems to have felt a rush of intrigue and admiration for Mangan’s sister. The excitement he felt when thinking about her or seeing her. gave him a rush that he was almost dependent on it to feel happy. I found it strange, considering the ability to describe his surroundings and pair with an emotion, that he did not describe Mangan’s sister. He mentions the rope on her hair and the sway of her dress when she moves but did not describe her as beautiful, he did not mention her […]
The two characters from “The Lesson” by Toni Cade Bambara, Mercedes, and Sylvia clearly show contrast in their experience and point of view in response to the visit to the FA0 Schwarz toy store. I associate Mercedes with a wealthy family(one little portion of the society) when she emphasizes that the price tags of the toys were not much of a surprise for her and whenever she wishes to have one, she can get it. On the contrary, the rest of her classmates were stunned by every piece in the store, especially by the price tag which didn’t make sense to them since similar products were found in a different location at a way cheaper price. Sylvia was one of my classmates and all she could think of was who would pay for those insane prices. She expresses her anger by asking Miss Monroe “Watcha bring us here for, Miss Moore?” but later on everything falls in its place and the lesson of the experience is revealed. At the end of the trip, everyone was overwhelmed to know that there is a part of society that lives differently from what they used to see and live. When did Miss Monroe ask what did you learn from the class? Mercedes responded that she will return when she has her birthday money while the rest of the class including Sylvia thought that price tags could equal to the rent or feed six-seven family expenses. The inequality gap between poor and rich was huge that so the lesson was “poor people have to wake up and demand their share of the pie” and change the system.
