Barriers or fences can be both physical and psychological. They can either protect and serve as a way to make progress without any issues, or they can do the complete opposite and ensure that no progress is made. Of course, it depends on the circumstances, but in the context I’ll be discussing, the primary purpose of a barrier or a fence is to ensure little to no progress in education using these sources as evidence, such as “Kindred” by Octavia Butler, ”The Lesson” by Toni Cade Bambara, “A Raisin in the Sun” by Lorraine Hansberry, and “Mending Wall, by Robert Frost. I will address both a physical barrier and a psychological one. I will also discuss the following: race as a barrier that doesn't give the same…show more content… We can also see this later on near the end of page 6 when Ms. Moore, a woman who is a part of Sylvia’s neighborhood and the one who took her and her peers out to the toy store asks her, “You know, Miss Moore, I don’t think all of us here put together eat in a year what that sailboat costs.” And Miss Moore lights up like somebody goosed her. “And?” she says, urging Sugar on. I’m standing on her foot so she doesn’t continue. “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.” Ms. Moore wanted to teach them all the reality of the society they live in as someone who was socially conscious. The story itself touches on the economic/ financial barriers, the educational barriers and the social barriers. The story emphasizes the need to recognize and even challenge these barriers to achieve true educational success and social equity. The book “Kindred” by Octavia Butler touches on the topics of slavery, which can be connected to the Jim Crow Laws and how they dehumanized African Americans. Slavery was enforced onto black people and that ties with the political
