I will write about wealth inequality and I will give this essay title called “the wealth inequality of the word”. In this essay, “lesson”, by Toni Cade Bambara, Miss Moore asks a group of children if they know what money is like and says this world is made of wealth inequality. She also says they are poor and live in the slums. Sylvia personally doesn’t agree with her until they go to the fifth Avenue. They see the price of a hand-crafted sailboat of fiberglass through the window of a toy store and that cost one thousand one hundred ninety five dollars. When she saw this price she was very shocked and couldn’t believe this sailboat cost that much. Her sailboat is just fifty cents, she doesn’t believe people will buy that expensive sailboat and believe this sailboat should have a motor or other special on it. Unfortunately, there was nothing special on this sailboat, just a handmade sailboat. There is a big gap between the poor and the rich. They don’t care how much this thing is worth,because they can afford it. For low income people like Sylvia won’t spend that much on a sailboat. Even if she has the money, she will spend this money on other places, but it is likely that she still couldn’t afford it with her savings. When Miss Bambara tells them to go inside the store everyone stops moving including her. This made her very angry because she felt that this was not like usual self where she could go wherever she wanted. She thought in her mind but her body just can’t move forward. No one moves because they feel the inequality between poor and rich, they know they can’t afford anything in this store. Finally they followed Miss Moore into this store, but no one touch the things in this store. At the end they leave the store, on the way back home Sylvis suddenly reminds them there is a toy cost $35 in the store. To people like Sylvis $35 can buy a lot of things, but for a wealthy family $35 is just a few dollars. Overall this experience had changed her mind about the distance between poor and wealth.
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Jessica, the prompt asks students to write about an element other than wealth inequity but to focus on a different aspect of the story.