The author of "The Lesson" is Toni Cade Bambara who lived from 1939 to 1995. It seems the author wrote about her own experiences. The main characters in the story are Miss Moore, Sylvia and Sugar. The narrator is Sylvia: a young girl who puts up a rough, tough front as protection from her poor, modern day, New York City environment. She deals with the circumstances in her life that she feels she has no control over, with a hard, mean act. Sylvia's cousin, Sugar, is smart but lets Sylvia bully her.
If Sugar was the narrator of this story I believe that the whole story would take wrong approach. I don't think that Sugar would have learned the same lesson as Sylvi
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