A topic I would write in an essay on “The Lesson” by Toni Cade Bambara that doesn’t talk about the socio-economic issues in the story but more on an interesting detail would be about the impact this trip to Fifth Avenue with Miss Moore has left on the children. In the beginning of the story, the main character and the other children weren’t quite familiar with the world outside their own that was until a lady named Miss Moore brought them to Fifth Avenue where they learned how about the unjust equal opportunity. There, they found expensive toys that costed more than enough to feed a whole family which made the main character, Sylvia, angry. But besides the anger towards how unequal they found she society was, I believe that this whole trip had a major impact that changed these children’s views of the world and possibly even affected them to work hard for their future. A different title I would give the story would be “The Impact.”
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Koi, the idea that Miss Moore made the children aware of a world they did not even know existed would be interesting as long as the essay did not devolve into a discussion purely about economics.