Miss Moore and Sugar are the main examples to presenting Sylvia’s jealousy to the reader. Sylvia acts as if she doesn’t care about her poverty, but Miss Moore brings out a major detail that shows the reader that deep down it’s killing her to see all the people that are better than her.

Sylvia acts as though she couldn’t care any less about Miss Moore and th

Sylvia is confused to why she even has to be in up-town Manhattan with Miss Moore.

Sylvia is not as proud of being underprivileged, as she seems to act to be. One of Sylvia’s major actions that show us that she is jealous of all the richer people is how angry she gets when she sees all the toys that she cannot afford in the toy store. Also she curses a great deal of the story. Sylvia expresses her anger at other by cursing and making fun at them. For example when she describes Miss Moore she says “goddamn college degree” (Bambara, 438) and she made the reader fell as if Miss Moore were an outcast for dressing like she was going to church everyday. She hates how everyday Miss Moore dresses nicely, because she doesn’t have nice clothes to wear everyday. On page 440, Sylvia doesn’t understand why all of this is making her so mad. When she is in school or around her peers she is always the best and the smartest. She never had to deal with competition. And now all of a sudden she is in a totally different world where everyone is living better than she.

The Lesson is filled with curses and grammar mistakes; and that is what makes the story interesting. If Miss Moore were to be the narrator of the story we would loose interest in the story. She would study her trip to up-town Manhattan as would a scientist his lab rat. It is more interesting to see that Sylvia and her peers are lacking the ability to speak and write as children would in a normal setting, than to have it be told that the children of lower Manhattan are ill educated. In addition to having the story loose it’s interest, we would also loose the significance of the title. In the end when there is a group discussion, Miss Moore is delighted with the fact that Sugar learned something out of this experience. She is disappointed with how Sylvia shuts up Sugar. Then she tries to encourage Sylvia into interpreting what she saw that day, but Sylvia just turned away. Once again Miss Moore sees Sylvia as hopeless. Bu

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