brittany's+lessons+learned

In the shory story "American History" the main character, Elena, learns a very important lesson. The specfic lesson that she learns is connect to the theme of the story. The mean theme of the story is that you can't always get what you want, no matter how bad you want something. In the beginning of the story Elena talks about how she would like to be able to jump rope like the black girls, but she couldn't, and they made fun of her for it by calling her names being down right rude to her. Then throughout the story Elena talks about how she wishes she could spend time with Eugene, but she can't. Even though she can't do these things, she must learn that she has to move on a focus on realistic dreams.