In the story “The Lesson,” Silvia, is a poor, sassy, young girl who believes to be the know it all. Silvia and Sugar seem to be the leaders of this small group, who live in poverty. Silvia resents Miss Moore for knowing more than her, for example, “She’d been to college and said it was only right that she should take responsibility for the young ones’ education, and she not even related by marriage or blood. So they’d go for it” (146). Silvia feels that Miss Moore should be making them do things they do not want to do, since she is not even related to them, and their parent are ok with this just because she has a college degree. When Miss. Moore rounds up the group to go the city, she asks the group what they think about money. Again, Silvia
