Response to Essay, "The Lesson"

The Lesson Gone Known
The best approach in learning about your moral values is on an unpredictable level. In the essay, The Lesson, Miss Moore teaches the kids what they desperately need to know the most. The lesson, in my opinion, is to have a realistic awareness of people in the real world. Whether this group of kids knows it or not they learned something that day, walking the streets with Miss Moore.
The comparison of Miss Moore to the alcoholics that lived on the streets illustrates the "young and foolish" side of the character, Sylvia. After the lessons taught that day, Sylvia may or may not have learned anything, right away. …