One of the short stories that Toni Cade Bambara wrote was "The Lesson" in 1972. ("The Lesson"). Toni Cade Bambara was born as Miltona Mirkin Cade on March 25, 1939, in New York, New York. In the year 1972, she adopted the last name Bambara from a signature she found on a sketch pad in a trunk of her grandmother's things. Bambara grew up in Harlem, New York where she attended public schools. She also attended Queen College in New York where she received her B.A. degree in theater arts in 1959. She then got her M.A. degree in American Literature at the City College in 1965. Bambara died of cancer in Pennsylvania on December 9, 1995. (May 152-153) ** Thesis Statement Here **
This short story takes place in Harlem New York during the mid-1900s in a small African American community. For many African Americans, this was a very difficult time. They endured different …show more content…
Miss Moore was the woman on the block with "no first name" (Bambara). She had nappy hair, proper speech, and never wore makeup. Most of the kids on the block laugh at her because she was so different. She was an educated African American that moves into a poor neighborhood. She took the responsibility to teach the less fortune children about the many problems in the African American community and to "expose them to various issues and ways of life." ("The Lesson"). Throughout the entire story, Miss Moore never changed her ways. She was there to teach and teaching is what she did for the group of kids. Miss Moore is very important to this story because if she had not moved to the kid's community, they would have never seen how different their community was compared to the others. Miss Moore stands out because she is the type of woman that does not and will never let anything tie her down. She will always stay true to herself. She impacted her belief in the need for poor people to step up and "demand their fair share of America's wealth."("The
This short story takes place in Harlem New York during the mid-1900s in a small African American community. For many African Americans, this was a very difficult time. They endured different …show more content…
Miss Moore was the woman on the block with "no first name" (Bambara). She had nappy hair, proper speech, and never wore makeup. Most of the kids on the block laugh at her because she was so different. She was an educated African American that moves into a poor neighborhood. She took the responsibility to teach the less fortune children about the many problems in the African American community and to "expose them to various issues and ways of life." ("The Lesson"). Throughout the entire story, Miss Moore never changed her ways. She was there to teach and teaching is what she did for the group of kids. Miss Moore is very important to this story because if she had not moved to the kid's community, they would have never seen how different their community was compared to the others. Miss Moore stands out because she is the type of woman that does not and will never let anything tie her down. She will always stay true to herself. She impacted her belief in the need for poor people to step up and "demand their fair share of America's wealth."("The