Introduction to Literature Annemarie Hamlin English 125 Bambi Benes January 31, 2009 In many forms of Literature, authors will come right out and set the scene for you, but in the works that I have chosen the settings and the culture were written in the text and you had to read into it to find the clues and put them together. I chose three works of literature for their cultural settings and for the imagery that is laid out well as you piece the clues together. First I will give you a bit of incite on each piece of work then I will show some comparisons between each work and how they can all be tied together. Discrimination in Society Page 3 The children in this story are sheltered to other ways of living, particularly the rich, and in this story white patrons are considered the rich. Whengiven the opportunity to travel to a toy store the children are in awe at the differences in society. The difference between the rich white people that they saw at the toy store and the families that live in Sylvia's neighborhood is that the rich folks seemingly have money to waste. Sylvia thinks of the toy clown that she saw at the store that cost thirty-five dollars -- she immediately converts that price to what it would mean in her world: a new bunk bed for the boys, a trip to her grandfather's home in the country. Even these things are luxuries in Sylvia's world, but the rich white customers at F.A.O Schwartz are able to spend over a thousand dollars on a toy sail boat, and still afford to wear fur coats in summer. Miss Moore prods the children about what this means, musing, "Imagine for a minute what kind of society it is in which some people can spend on a toy what it would cost to feed a family of six or seven" (Bambara 432). The children do realize the implication of such a fact; it makes them aware that they do not have the same economic opportunities that rich, white children might. Sugar makes a comment about how “this is not much of a democracy if you ask her....