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When Bambara made Sylvia the narrator of his story, he was able to immerse us <\/span>through a child\u2019s perspective. He highlighted another side<\/span> to the themes an AI generator would normally write about.<\/span> Her encounter with Ms<\/span>. Moore is not viewed as an opportunity to learn but as an intruder <\/span>imposing her <\/span>condescending<\/span> opinions on<\/span> them<\/span>. Throughout the <\/span>narrative,<\/span> Sylvia<\/span> expresses her <\/span>disapproval of<\/span> Ms<\/span>. <\/span>Moore<\/span> based on other <\/span>adults’<\/span> views<\/span>.<\/span> She describes Ms. Moore\u2019s unwillingness <\/span>to dress <\/span>casually<\/span> and wear <\/span>makeup<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>as another display of her <\/span>superiority <\/span>compared to the rest of her community. <\/span>W<\/span>e can see <\/span>Ms. Moore’s<\/span> intentions in trying to educate the children, but from Sylvi<\/span>a\u2019s perspective, we do not see those intentions<\/span> come across clearly. <\/span>This moment can be seen during the story when Sylvia <\/span>refuses to discuss<\/span>\u00a0her reaction to the toy store<\/span> with Ms. Moore<\/span>.<\/span> Sylvia s<\/span>truggles with her <\/span>conflicting feelings of growing<\/span> awareness over the social inequality she is faced with as a child. <\/span> Bambara\u2019s use <\/span>of Sylvia\u2019s<\/span> point of view<\/span> forces us to confront<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>social<\/span> inequality<\/span> in the same way she was forced to face it<\/span> through confusion and self-reflection. <\/span>Through Sylvia\u2019s narration, we also see another type of injustice when children are left to navigate these inequalities alone.<\/span><\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

When Bambara made Sylvia the narrator of his story, he was able to immerse us through a child\u2019s perspective. He highlighted another side to the themes an AI generator would normally write about. Her encounter with Ms. Moore is not viewed as an opportunity to learn but as an intruder imposing her condescending opinions on […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10173,"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-18371","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-spring-2025-conway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18371","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/eng-201-introduction-to-literature-spring-2025-conway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/eng-201-introduction-to-literature-spring-2025-conway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/eng-201-introduction-to-literature-spring-2025-conway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10173"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/eng-201-introduction-to-literature-spring-2025-conway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18371"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/eng-201-introduction-to-literature-spring-2025-conway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18371\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18372,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/eng-201-introduction-to-literature-spring-2025-conway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18371\/revisions\/18372"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/eng-201-introduction-to-literature-spring-2025-conway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/eng-201-introduction-to-literature-spring-2025-conway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/eng-201-introduction-to-literature-spring-2025-conway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}