Life Is Not Fair
...rtrays Miss Moore as very smart, snooty, and nosey. No one in the neighborhood likes her; she is the only one in the neighborhood that people call ‘miss’ instead of calling her by her first name. The narrator, Sugar, and their friends from school are young, African American, naive, children. They all live in a poor black neighborhood and think school is just a waste of time. It shows by their dialect and grammar. One hot summer day, Miss Moore was determined to teach the children in her neighborhood a lesson about life they would never forget. She lined them up against a mailbox and lectured them about the importance of money in life and how vital an education is for the future. After a few minutes, a taxi arrives and she takes the children to town. Once in town, the taxi drops Miss Moore, the narrator, Sugar, and the other children off at a very expensive toy store. When the children step out of the taxi, they rush to the window to see what is inside. After the ohhhing and ahhhhing, one of the children points out a handcrafted fiberglass sailboat that costs one thousand one hundred ninety five dollars. All of the children were in disbelief. They could not believe a sailboat could ever cost that much. They thought someone would have to be crazy to buy their son or daughter a sailboat like that, just so it could get damaged once he or she finished playing with it. Miss Moore stood staring at them silently with a sort of smile on her face. She is happy that the children finally see how important money is and how the rich can afford a toy that costs more than all of their toys put together. Once the children return back to their poor neighborhoods they all realize that life is not fair and never will be. The ...