Toni Cade Bambara The Lesson Analysis

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Every individual has their own identity. They are not born with it. Their identities are formed throughout the time getting influenced by culture, language, family, friends, media, nature and country. Also human beings are tend to grow liking towards certain kind of luminaries with which they can relate to. People most of the time pursue their careers or hobbies under the effects of these factors. For example, a person becomes a doctor because he is inspired by the people who save lives or someone wants to become a social leader because he is fascinated by the people who has created revolutionary history and helped mankind or someone dreams to be a teacher because he/she wants remove the darkness from society and be a role model to the students …show more content…

The person who inspires us the most in our lives is a teacher. Teachers teach us some important lessons besides the textbooks that play a meaningful role shaping our identities. They enlighten our outlook with knowledge and help us learn how to differentiate between right and wrong by developing our ethics. In Toni Cade Bambara's short story, "The Lesson," Miss Moore is a self-appointed advocate to a group of inner-city children. She tries to point out the cause behind their present situation where they are suffering and their parents are struggling to make ends meet. She believes that the children who would become the future can change their situation towards betterment. She teaches them about equality thinking they will step forward to earn what they deserve and they can go …show more content…

He fails to Parent Sonny as he promised to his belated mother. As a result Sonny indulges himself into drugs to avoid the pain of loneliness and his brother abandoned him. He ends up being in jail and rehabilitation. But Sonny shows his undying morals in reply to his brother’s letter when he says, “I’m glad mama and daddy are dead and can’t see what’s happened to their son and I swear if I’d known what I was doing I would never have hurt you so, [...] and who believed in me”(254). Eventually Sonny becomes a jazz musician as he always wanted to be. Music is his salvation from the darkness he put himself into. When the narrator saw his younger brother trying hard to shape his identity as he once struggled to achieve, the narrator states, “he seemed to have found, right there beneath his fingers, a damn brand new piano” when music and his family helped Sonny get back to his healthy

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