The memoir; “A Lesson Not Learned” by Carol Sherman-Jones, follows a moment of her childhood in which her careless and forgetful nature resulted in a strict “lesson” from her father. Jones recounts a few examples of her younger, more innocent and reckless days; the one that stuck with her being the time she lost a very special hat, and her father's reaction. Unknowing of her father's awareness to the situation, she attempts it cover it up by playing around and lying about the hat in question. Her father, as a lesson and as punishment, slaps the young Carol, resulting in both a hurt cheek, as well as a damaged image of her father and the trust she held for him.
