Use of Metaphors' in Toni Bambara's The Lesson

learn in all different ways: some by visuals, some by auto, and some by hands on interaction. Often time babies begin to walk by eighteen months, but sometimes they begin at nine months. The short story, “The Lesson”, by Toni Cade Bambara is filled with all types of metaphors that lead to one thing, the theme. Every child is teachable, but each child learns in their own way and at their own pace. The author expresses this in three ways: the lessons that Miss Moore teaches, the way she teaches, and how the children react to the lessons. The author expresses quite a few lessons to support her theme and she uses the character Miss Moore to bring out her point. Miss Moore teaches…

we can feel sympathy, rage, happiness, or love; giving us these emotions means that we can experience empathy, which is the one aspect that makes us human. Authors have the ability to reach these emotions within people by using diction, imagery, metaphors/similes or other literary devices. On top of that literature can also give audiences a glimpse of history, with the use of story-telling, it helps us better understand the time in which the text was written. Using examples of “The Lesson,”…