Essays on Bambara

Critical thinking is often the main goal of education rather than the simple accrual of knowledge. This is thematically discussed in Toni Cade Bambara’s The Lesson and David Foster Wallace’s Commencement Speech, Kenyon College. Bambara’s story shows an adult leading a group of children in an out-of-town educational trip. Wallace’s speech, on the other hand details the transition of graduates into adult life and of how their college education plays a role in it. Whereas Bambara’s story deals more on the racial themes and differences of inequality, Wallace’s speech focuses on the larger ...

“The Lesson” is a book authored by Toni Cade Bambara. It is set out to depict the contemporary life of the African Americans. It is a narrative of a black girl, Sylvia laments on the inequality of life after Miss. Moore takes her and her friend to the areas dominated by the wealthy. This paper aims to highlight the various valuable lessons that Miss. Moore, an educated and sophisticated black woman, teaches the young adults that they should view life beyond their nose as there is much more to life than they are accustomed. One of the major issues ...

Foremost, to understand the relevance of the identified themes of politics and economics, there is a need to consider the traditions that the authors represent in their works and the how their characters realize the problem with assuming the norms are acceptable. In other words, the following segments of this paper present the turning points of the identified narratives as they highlight the socio-economic divisions through the experiences of the characters. In “The Lesson” racial groups play a significant role in determining the opportunities that the people access. While in “The Necklace,” the social class to which one is ...

“The Lesson” is the short story written by Toni Cade Bambara and its main topic is the social and economic inequality. This inequality can be seen in the position of the children and their families in the society. Miss Moore is also teaching them about social and economic inequality in her private lessons which happen during summer. The children symbolize the innocence and the young who are supposed to be educated about the world and about all of the injustice. The world functions in such a way that there are the privileged and the under-privileged groups of people. In “ ...