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The Lesson by Toni Cade Banbara The Lesson by Toni Cade Banbara Kelli Parsons English 102 SJ Glassberg March 7, 2006 “The Lesson” by Toni Cade Banbara The theme of “The Lesson” is poverty vs. wealth. The narrator, Sylvia and her friends are “all poor and live in the slums”(3). The children have no concept.