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The two stories I decided to use for my essay are: “The lesson” by Toni Cade Bambara and “In the american society” by Gish Jen. I have chosen these two stories for their view of life in America. Both Ms. Bambara and Ms. Jen talk about how ....

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.... which cost one thousand one hundred ninety-five dollars, they could not believe Somebody would spend that much on something that will brake quickly. It makes the narrator angry that Some people are able to afford a toy like that, when her family can barely take care of her. We see this When she notices a toy clown that does somersaults and pull-ups which cost thirty-five dollars. She tells us that thirty five dollars would pay the rent, and the piano bill, by her cousins bunk beds and Pay for a trip to the country to visits her grand father (112). At the end when the leave the store the narrator’s friend, Sugar, is the only one to get t ....