Toni Bambara The Lesson Analysis

“The things you take for granted someone else is praying for” (Marlan Rico Lee). There are people in this world who are going through obstacles after obstacles begging, pleading with people for spare change or food because they go to sleep every night listening to their stomach growl so much it became a symphony. Toni Cade Bambara demonstrates in the short story “The Lesson” how the true victim of impoverishment are children. Everyday they try to figure out why their lives are they way it is or why are they at the bottom of the society class pyramid. While reading the story there are several socio-economical issues that strips the innocence of a child. The lack of education, poverty and class difference and with that we are able to acknowledge …show more content…
It’s hurtful to say but if you were at the lower end of the social class pyramid you are most likely to live in the struggle. We were labeled as peasants in with that brand name we kept the inside and actually believed it. Nobody really stepped up and made a change when it comes to the urban environment be laid back on her ass is collecting welfare food stamps we got used to being so low in the world we forgot to climb and be on top and the true victims that have to be a witness of this is children, Because they’re watching their parents are around and do nothing there going to see how easy it’s going to be to make fast money without realizing it’s not everlasting money. They’re going to want to get everything without trying to work for it. However even though being in a lower class is rough there are good outcomes for instance wealthiness usually affects a child’s sense of right or wrong and good or bad. The wealthier they are, the more likely they are tone naughty, ignorant, and inconsiderate of others and their lifestyles. Whereas, the children are poor and struggling everyday, even though some may also have a bad attitude but majority of the children would understand why people are the way they are, they would usually be able to empathize on a deeper level comprehending things like why people are sad, angry, stressed, exhausted. The have a more sympathetic understanding of the world unlike wealthy kids whose understand of their environment are more often than not, entirely materialistic. Sometimes it’s not about the physical things they achieve when they leave this victimhood sometimes it’s also to get emotionally stronger to understand that maybe their not alone and that they can somebody’s support system and maybe if they unify as one their achieve more as a whole