In “The Lesson” the children are all being taught by MS. Moore. Ms. Moore especially likes to make sure Sylvia is taught because she can tell that she is the leader of her little group and can influence the others. Sugar ends up being the one to answer Ms. Moore’s question about the F.A.O Schwarz store. Sylvia ends up trying to shut her up twice to make sure she don’t answer Ms. Moore because Sylvia cannot bare to give Ms. Moore the satisfaction of winning. Sylvia is too stubborn to admit what they all already know which is the economic inequity they all face. Sugar and Sylvia differ in the way that Sugar doesn’t see Ms. Moore as someone that she should defy while Sylvia will take any chance to defy her because Sylvia is prideful and won’t let no one “win” against her. Sugar on the other hand doesn’t mind and tries to at least think for herself. The girls are the same in the way that they both might think the same on some level and actually are smart enough to learn the lessons being taught by Ms. Moore.
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Hmm. I agree that Sugar is more open to the lesson being taught by Miss Moore. She is able to intellectualize it and make connections with the larger society. Yet why is Sylvia so resistant? Is it because she has actually internalized the truths—in an emotional rather than intellectual way—and has vowed that she will have a different kind of life. Sylvia may not want Miss Moore “to win,” as you rightly point out, but she also doesn’t want society to win over her. At the end of the story, she is angry and is resolved to change things for her own future by not letting societal forces to keep her down.
Yes, both of them are smart, Sylvia is just like a female gangster(not sure if I’m saying it correctly)smart and running mouth (perhaps), sugar on the other hand seems like a nice kid, but when they enter the Toy story the first thing she said “was can we steal?” very funny line, like it a daily event for her.