The Lesson By Toni Cade Bambara And The Stolen Party

In today’s world people is judged on his or her looks, what car they drive, the house they live in and plenty more. The way people treat one another is based on social and economic status in the world and that clearly happens in the stories â€Å"The Lesson† by Toni Cade Bambara and â€Å"The Stolen Party† by Liliana Heker. The main characters in the stories, Sylvia and Rosaura both experience social judgment in different scenarios. Towards the end of the â€Å"The Stolen Party,† Rosaura finds out that she is not invited to Luciana’s party as a guest but as the maid’s daughter. She realizes that Senora Ines asks her for her help most of the day to pass out food and help in kitchen as an obligation, not a favor. The fact that she is able to participate in the magic show and see the monkey in the kitchen blinds her to ever noticing she is basically doing her mother’s job. In the story â€Å"The Lesson,† Sylvia makes a 360-degree change. She goes from being a misbehaving, shy child to someone that learns the real problems in the world after a day with Miss Moore. After walking into a store, and looking at absurd prices for a handcrafted sailboat and a paper weight, Sylvia realizes †¦ people began to stare and Sylvia feels the social injustice. Miss Moore says, â€Å"Imagine for a minute what kind of society it is in which some people can spend on a toy what it could cost to feed a family of six or seven† (54-55). Here Sylvia discovers the economic inequality and realizes the world isn’t all good as it