Bilingual Writer

The story itself is a bit bizarre. The main characters are the grandmother and the misfit. The grandmother has a selfish, self-centered, manipulative personality. Everything starts with the grandma nagging her son about some criminals that escaped from a federal pen. From them on, there is a dark omen throughout the story. They left for their vacation trip. As usual, the grandma is directing the family to turn out of their way to do something else. As a result of that, the entire family gets murdered by the misfits. The main point of the story is that it is hard to find a good man. It is about religion and trust feelings. When they are trapped by the situation, the grandma, instead of trying to save everyone’s life, in a self-sacrificing spirit, she is trying to save herself. She begins a conversation about religion, pray, Jesus with the misfit trying to change his heart, which backfired on her when she, in the end, was killed. This conversation, to me, looked faked and forced. The st...

The Lesson The story talks about a lady called Miss Moore, that attended college. She came from a poor neighborhood. She was a black woman that achieved a great deal in the time. As a result of her higher education, she took it upon her self to teach the children of her neighborhood, which she called slums. Even though the story touches upon socio-economical issues that were in existence probably then more than now, the story's main point is the importance of having an education.  They talked about the value of money. Miss Moore took them to F.A.O. Schwartz, as a way to get down to their level and they could appreciate something that otherwise would be difficult for them. How unfair it is that some can afford to pay for toys what an entire family would eat. The reading says, ”Imagine for a minute what kind of society it is in which some people can spend on a toy what it would cost to feed a family of six or seven." There is indeed much inequality. However, the mo...