Shaun Singh
Professor Corona
English 102
13 March 2015
The Lesson by Toni Cade Bambara was a rather interesting read to say the least, if only because of the fact that it was something that made me quite nostalgic whilst reading. The bulk of what I read these days are mangas like Oyasumi Punpun and Solanin by Inio Asano that cover subject matter which most people would consider to be empathetic to a painfully realistic degree. Hell, even the stuff that I read that isn't manga tends to be engrossed in intense subject matter like Our Happy Time by Gong Ji-Young and Life of Pi by Yann Martel. It isn't often that I come across something that I can find empathetic that doesn't make me depressed as all hell. Leave it to English class to give me a pleasant reading that makes me yearn for the summers I spent as a child at home with a tutor.
On another note, it still baffles me as to how the wealthy think that charging hundreds of dollars for children's toys is a good idea. If I were in FAO Schwarz or any of those fancy toy stores and looked at those prices, I think I might've fainted, and I know damn well my father would have an aneurysm if he saw how much they charged for that fancy ship. To hell with wanting the best for my kids, they better be satisfied with a public school education, a paddle-ball, some cricket bats, and a few sets of board games. Okay, that's a bit hyperbolic but what rational human being would spend $1000-something on a toy ship? Surely there must be wealthy parents out there that can agree it's nothing more than a frivolous waste of money and would settle for something like a $20-$30 chemistry set. That toy ship costs a little less than 2/3rds of my apartment's rent! I could go ahead and move into a studio apartment in College Point with that kind of cash, or buy ~360 gallons of regular gasoline from the local petrol station. I could actually put a down payment on that Farsi class I've been meaning to take for God knows how long, and so on and so forth.
I envy the wealthy, but I don't envy their lack of pragmatism.
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