The Rich People's School Analysis

“The Rich People's School”
“The worst form of inequality is trying to make unequal things equal -Aristotle.” Recognizing the different variety of socio economic classes, many people tend to identify others and their quality of life, based off their personal economic struggles. We are influenced to consider poverty to be one “single story”, which manipulates some of us to think, “they are who they are because it was their choice”. For some, we instantly dehumanize them, placing them on a scale contributing to the main cause of inequality. Although for others, we see the issue and attach it, to prevent it. “The Rich People's school” reveals a fundamental cycle of Botswana’s ongoing poverty and inequality, which is expressed through Sylvia’s mother's betrayal and shown in Sylvia’s experience through the judgment that she deals with when attending the “rich people's school.”
“The Rich People's school” is a story that originates in the country of Botswana. It is based off of a girl named Sylvia, who is left by her mother for an American man, to prosper a better life for herself. It was emphasized in the story as a selfish action, but later revealed as a selfless movement. The love that the mother had for her child was deep, but not deep enough. As she agreed to leave her daughter behind, she only did so with the agreement of sending money for the payment, to allow Sylvia to attend a “rich people school”. When her mother left, she was tended by her grandmother, who made sure that Sylvia attended the school. She was bullied based off of her economic standard, and in addition disliked being there. This resulted to her leaving and going to a school nearby her own