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.”
Koi Yap
From my understanding, this prewriting assignment is the foundation and brainstorming part of the essay which is a multiple layered process that will outline the finished work. This is to help students prepare and organize their thoughts for the first literary essay. By using the sources provided in the activities of Week 1, you will learn how to outline a literary essay, step by step, as well as how to add quotes from primary and secondary sources, how to use MLA style, etc. The purpose of understanding these can help you organize your thoughts for all upcoming essays. For this very essay, we are to use “The Most Handsome Drowned Man” by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, the primary source, and “Overview of ‘The Most Handsome Drowned Man’” by Dean Rader which is the secondary source to come up with our very own thesis to write an essay about. Although there is no writing as of now, we are expected to follow the steps in Part 1 of writing Essay 1 for better understanding of the essay structure before we actually begin to write.
