Week 10

For the most recent class we were task to write our first draft. The story I chose to use as inspiration was “The Lesson” by Toni cade Bambara. The story perfectly hit on many points that I use even in my life and was the perfect choice for ne to write about. The thesis of my story was Life is situational if you want to change your situation you have to go beyond your imagination to achieve your goals nothing is given but all is earned. A secondary source I used to help support my thesis was a literary critique. The literary critique I used to help support my thesis was from JSTOR and it gave a lot of information about Toni Cade Bambara and her upbringing as a Harlem born author who chose to embrace the language of her culture and community. She used that to convey a strong message of empowerment in her story as if she had something to prove.