LITERATURE

Literature

Literature

Introduction

This is the first time I've focused on literature and understanding different parts such as fiction and poems, etc. I've read the works of many different authors' points of views on what I believe is their life experiences. I feel that literature is a good tool to communicate with the community because it serves as a stepping stone to help if you're troubled or shed light of scenarios that is hard for you to understand. I will review three different stories by unique authors and compare on how the all relate to each other. The first story is “The Lesson” by Toni Cade Bamara who is an African American author that is known for her short stories. Then I will review a poem “The Orchard” by Muriel Stuart who is an English author that was known to write sexual political poems which she is famous for “The Orchard”. The last story I will review is “Happy Endings” by Margaret Atwood who is a Canadian author and known for her work writing novels.

Analysis

In the short story “The Lesson” (Bambara, 1972, Pg 427) by Toni Cade Bamara is a short story that uses Theme and Symbolism. It was hard for me to follow due to the language she used. I also noticed my fellow classmates frustrated with her language as well. I had to take into consideration that the society she grew up in was racists towards African Americans and they did not have an advantage which many was poor and uneducated. For example: “And quite naturally we laughed at her, laughed the way we did at the junk man who went about his business like he was some big-time president and his sorry-ass horse his secretary (Bambara, 1972, Pg. 427).

This is a first person narrative explaining their view of the teacher and in the language you can tell this person is not very well educated and has a chip on their shoulder because of lack of aspiration in the culture during these times. Ms. Moore is the teacher who is trying to reach out to the communities children and teach them a lesson outside of school. To sum it all up, Ms. Moore took the children from the inner city to a ritzy toy store and taught them lessons to show them it's going to take hard work for them to get them out of poverty. “What kind work they do and how they live and how come we ain't on it? Where we are is who we are, Miss Moore always pointin out. But it don't necessarily have to be that way, she always adds then waits for somebody to say that poor people have to wake up and demand their share of the pie and don't none of us know what kind of pie she talking about in the fist damn place.” (Bambara, 1972, Pg. 431). This is at the end of the story where she finally reaches out to Sugar but she doesn't want to ...