In Toni Cade Bambara's “The Lesson” she describe a story about a little girl and Miss Moore takes who take some kids to F. A. O. Schwartz to show them how expensive the toys are there. The children could not believe that people have enough money to pay for such luxuries. They are also surprised by the social etiquette that they must use while at the store. The children feel very out of place because they are not in their shoes. They start to connect their feelings to the realities of others who live lives in varying states of poverty. Miss Moore restraint tells the children that it is possible for them to rise above the conditions of their community so that one day they can work to correct the inequalities in the world .There was this
