Broadening the horizons of underprivileged children. Thank you Miss Moore. It takes a caring individual to live amongst the poor and teach their young. In the story "The Lesson" by Toni Cade Bambara, one character stands out and becomes the teacher of life's lessons. Miss Moore is a strong, educated, African American woman who for her own reasons lives within the slums and becomes, to an extent, a surrogate mother to children whose parents seem …showed first 75 words of 876 total…

…showed last 75 words of 876 total…if that in doing so she becomes a hero to any of the children but in my opinion if even one child lives a better life because of the lesson then a hero is what she will be remembered as. Miss Moore is the type of person that can change your life forever without even really trying and that is definitely the type of person that we need in our children's lives today. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ **Bibliography**