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    The passage summarizes the short story "The Lesson" by Toni Cada Bambara. It describes how the main character Toni realizes the value of a dollar during a trip to a toy store with her friend Miss Moore. Toni is surprised by how expensive some toys are, such as a $1,000 sailboat and a clown toy that could pay the rent. She learns that while some people can afford expensive toys, others need money just to feed their families. The story teaches Toni about economic inequality and the different values of a dollar to people in different financial situations.

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    The passage summarizes the short story "The Lesson" by Toni Cada Bambara. It describes how the main character Toni realizes the value of a dollar during a trip to a toy store with her friend Miss Moore. Toni is surprised by how expensive some toys are, such as a $1,000 sailboat and a clown toy that could pay the rent. She learns that while some people can afford expensive toys, others need money just to feed their families. The story teaches Toni about economic inequality and the different values of a dollar to people in different financial situations.

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    Tim Krueger

    Composition 102

    Mr. Neuberger

    11 February 2011

    Single Paragraph Essay

    The Value of a Dollar

    Finding the value of a dollar is how Toni Cada Bambara spent a day during her summer

    vacation in “The Lesson”. Seeing highly priced toys at a toy store with many of Bambara’s

    friends, she realized just how much things can cost. Bambara would spend a lot of time with a

    family friend, Miss Moore, because, “She’d been to college and said it was only right that she

    should take responsibility for the young one’s education” (Bambara 8). So, Miss More takes

    Bambara and a few friends to a store and check out prices on a few items. They then find a toy

    sailboat priced so high that Bambara is almost in disbelief. She couldn’t believe someone could

    pay one thousand dollars for a toy boat when she could buy one for under a dollar. Next,

    Bambara finds a clown toy that was priced high enough that the money could “pay for rent and

    the piano bill” (Bambara 13). Lastly, Bambara and friends realize the reality that some people

    can afford toys worth so much money that others would need the money to feed a family of six

    or seven.

    Bambara, Toni. “The Lesson ” Power of Language, Language of Power. New York, NY: Pearson Custom

    Publishing, 2009. 7-14.

    190

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