Where does money, power, and private property exist in the story?

Please begin reading the literature and thinking about how you will apply our new literary lens. For our third essay we are going to critique “The Lesson” by Toni Cade Bambara Download “The Lesson” by Toni Cade Bambara. The purpose of this essay is to recognize the way that literary theory provides unique lenses through which we can view both literature, and real life situations. By practicing the application of marxist theory to a piece of writing, you’ll be able to critically read literature, do academic research around both marxism and literature, and begin to make empathetic, understanding connections that may be unfamiliar to you. Prompt Write a marxist critique of the short story, “The Lesson.” Your critique must fully utilize the lens of marxism and interpret the story as a marxist would. Remember that above all else, marxists are concerned with the ways that economic oppression drive the rest of our circumstances. How can we see that economic oppression in the story? Some Critical Thinking questions: Where does money, power, and private property exist in the story? Is there evidence of alienation of labor? Do the characters show a fetishizing of their material commodities? (Do they love their material things too much?) How could the symbols and themes support a marxist criticism? How does this story ignore, exemplify, or otherwise represent a classic Marxist class struggle? **These are simply questions to help you start generating your own ideas. Your essay does not need to address each of these. We’ll continue to work on brainstorming and outlining in class. Details 4-6 pages. Three outside sources to support your interpretations. The short story itself does not count as one of these sources, however, it must be on the Works Cited page. Remember, CliffNotes or SparkNotes or whatever online “study guide” you find does not count as scholarly research. A properly formatted Works Cited page is present, and all formatting will follow MLA guidelines. Essays should be 12-point font, Times New Roman, double-spaced, with 1” margins. Papers should be numbered in the upper right-hand corner with your last name, per MLA standards. Above and Beyond Well-researched, supporting documents that are all academic in nature and directly related to the study of literature or literary analysis. Demonstration of mastery of more than one of the primary ideas of marxism as a literary critique. Those elements are integrated into the essay logically with smooth transition and logichkzal relation to each other.