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In Toni Bambara’s, The Lesson, she tells the reader a story of one summer day from a young African American girl’s perspective named Sylvia, who discovers at the very end that there’s a heavily weighted lesson to learn from Miss Moore, though Sylvia might not know the meaning of the lesson yet. This story takes place in the 1960’s, the beginning of the civil rights era. Bambara shows the reader that equality still does not exist in America, even a century after the Emancipation Proclamation. She shows, through Miss Moore and the students, when they realize the bigger lesson, the pitfalls of the American capitalistic society and that change is needed for parity.

At the time the story takes place, the distribution of wealth was not fair in America, and still may not be to this day. Bambara first shows us, when Miss Moore and her students are walking down the street in the city, Miss Moore complaining about America. She argues that money isn’t divided up right in this......

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