Ms. Moore is a representation of a new future, \u201ca symbol of changing times\u201d as it was described in the critical essay on \u201cThe Lesson\u201d. Ms. Moore stood out in the neighborhood and was different from all the parents not only because she had a college degree but with her outlook on life and her understanding of justice, unlike the rest of people in the community she disdains the church and even her physical appearance highlights her being different \u201cshe has nappy hair\u201d and she \u201cwears no makeup\u201d.<\/p>\n
When Ms. Moore brought the kids to the F.A.O Shwarts toy store it opened up a curtain into the world they didn\u2019t know of and we could clearly see a difference in kid\u2019s reaction. While Sylvia, who is usually so confident and bossy in her hood, for the first time feels shy and ashamed, scared to go into the store. Finally \u201ctumbled in like a glued-together jigsaw done all wrong\u201d, getting everyone\u2019s attention at the store and being out of place. Meanwhile Mercedes acts like she belongs to that world unlike the rest of the kids in the group she confidently squeezes past them \u201csmoothing out her jumper and walking right down the aisle\u201d. She was the only one to have a desk at home and proudly comments that her father would buy the sailboat toy for her if she wanted it. Mercedes feels proud to belong to this \u201cwhite world reality\u201d. The only lesson she takes home with her from this field trip is that she would like to come back there again with her birthday money.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile Sylvia\u2019s vision of the reality has been shifted significantly and she is going through a rollercoaster of emotions that challenge her perception of the world she\u2019s been living in up until now. She is stunned at the cost of the toy boat and also she is feeling pissed off next. \u201cWho are these people that spend that much for performing clowns and 1000$ for toy sailboats? What kinda work they do and how they live and how come we ain\u2019t in on it\u201d. These are the questions that Sylvia is facing and \u201cshe gets a headache for thinking so hard\u201d.\u00a0 <\/span>As Sugar was speaking up about there not being democracy and equal chances to pursue happiness, Sylvia is angry at her friend for supporting miss Moore but she can\u2019t help a feeling \u201csomething weird is going on, I can feel it in my chest\u201d. And in the finishing scene of the story we witness that Sylvia cannot be bothered with the four dollars change anymore, she has a lot on her mind and she gets away \u201cto think this day through\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Ms. Moore is a representation of a new future, \u201ca symbol of changing times\u201d as it was described in the critical essay on \u201cThe Lesson\u201d. Ms. Moore stood out in the neighborhood and was different from all the parents not only because she had a college degree but with her outlook on life and her […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6186,"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":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8776","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-week-4-discussion","czr-hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/eng-201-introduction-to-literature-spring-2023-conway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8776","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/eng-201-introduction-to-literature-spring-2023-conway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/eng-201-introduction-to-literature-spring-2023-conway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/eng-201-introduction-to-literature-spring-2023-conway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6186"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/eng-201-introduction-to-literature-spring-2023-conway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8776"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/eng-201-introduction-to-literature-spring-2023-conway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8776\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8777,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/eng-201-introduction-to-literature-spring-2023-conway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8776\/revisions\/8777"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/eng-201-introduction-to-literature-spring-2023-conway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/eng-201-introduction-to-literature-spring-2023-conway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/eng-201-introduction-to-literature-spring-2023-conway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}