Something that I’ve found very interesting in the “The Lesson” by Toni Cade Bambara is he narrator’s attitude through the whole story. She’s very proud and loud, and what I mean by that is she speaks her mind no matter what. If I were to write an essay off of this story I’d title it “Coming of Age” because I feel like the whole premise of what was happening in the story was Miss Moore teaching the young kids about the reality they lived in and what their circumstances really entailed. You see that some the kids like Sylvia and her friend Sugar were sort of grasping what Miss Moore wanted to teach them. The essay would explore the ignorance and naïveté of the kids to them learning through Miss Moore what life really is like and them gradually gaining understanding and growth. An analysis of our life compared to Sylvia and the other kids could helps us also realize when was our Coming of Age” moment in our lives; When did childlike view of the world disappeared and replaced with an actual view of how things really are in the world.
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I agree with everything you said. I liked how you highlighted the narrator’s attitude. I feel like the narrator’s attitude develops the story because being young you are not very receptive to change especially uncomfortable change so being in that new environment probably brought those emotions to the narrator. Your title highlights the motions that go on throughout the story and it hints at the change of awareness for the children. Now that they have seen more, they know more and might do better.
This sounds like an interesting angle to take for an essay that is not about the broad socio-economic issues in the story. Sylvia’s attitude has many possible meanings. I find her adversarial attitude towards Miss Moore to be especially interesting psychologically.