What’s the Lesson? If you want to get anything in life you must work hard. In Toni Cade Bambara’s short story “The Lesson,” the single unifying fact is exploring life outside of your own realm of knowledge is the key to success. This is proved to be true when Miss Moore took the children to see a way of life they have never to known to exist. Miss Moore taught the group of …showed first 75 words of 1092 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1092 total…the same place Sugar is. She is going to the West End to think over what had happened that day. This story has a very valuable theme to it. Exploring life outside of your own realm of knowledge is the key to success. This holds true today. The children tried to understand a way of life they knew nothing about. By doing this, they had all realized there was more to life than they thought.