{"id":16753,"date":"2024-09-19T00:02:50","date_gmt":"2024-09-19T04:02:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/eng-201-introduction-to-literature-fall-2024-conway\/?p=16753"},"modified":"2024-09-19T00:02:50","modified_gmt":"2024-09-19T04:02:50","slug":"alan-adames-discussion-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/eng-201-introduction-to-literature-fall-2024-conway\/2024\/09\/19\/alan-adames-discussion-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Alan Adames &#8211; Discussion 4"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The short story, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Lesson<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, left me with thoughts that I find a little hard to describe. The main lesson being taught to the children by Miss Moore seems to be clearly about their socio-economic standing and the disparity between them and the people who may shop in the store. However, there seems to be a lesson more directly targeted towards Sylvia. It\u2019s implied towards the end when Miss Moore says, \u201cAnybody else learn anything today?\u201d She asked that while staring at Sylvia, clearly directing the question at her. It may just be my personal bias, however, Sylvia\u2019s attitude throughout the story possessed an air of entitlement. She would speak ill of others and seemed to think of herself as better than others in certain aspects. She also seemed to lord over her companions. There were also mentions of both anger and shame when upon experiencing the toy store, its atmosphere, and its prices. In the end, Miss Moore\u2019s targeted question was the metaphorical final nail in the coffin that both sparked Sylvia\u2019s competitiveness and humbled her. It made her stop and think about the day and what she experienced. It made her <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">want<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> to be better. That\u2019s what I think I\u2019d try to write about in an essay about this short story. An essay titled \u201cA Lesson on Humility\u201d about Sylvia\u2019s shift and the lesson that was meant for her specifically.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The short story, The Lesson, left me with thoughts that I find a little hard to describe. The main lesson being taught to the children by Miss Moore seems to be clearly about their socio-economic standing and the disparity between them and the people who may shop in the store. However, there seems to be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9590,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"portfolio_post_id":0,"portfolio_citation":"","portfolio_annotation":"","openlab_post_visibility":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16753","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-week-3-discussion","czr-hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/eng-201-introduction-to-literature-fall-2024-conway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16753","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/eng-201-introduction-to-literature-fall-2024-conway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/eng-201-introduction-to-literature-fall-2024-conway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/eng-201-introduction-to-literature-fall-2024-conway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9590"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/eng-201-introduction-to-literature-fall-2024-conway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16753"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/eng-201-introduction-to-literature-fall-2024-conway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16753\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16754,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/eng-201-introduction-to-literature-fall-2024-conway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16753\/revisions\/16754"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/eng-201-introduction-to-literature-fall-2024-conway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/eng-201-introduction-to-literature-fall-2024-conway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/eng-201-introduction-to-literature-fall-2024-conway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}