him, bringing him gifts, and looking after him when he ventures out into the town.
Gilligan and Wiggins (1988) argue that feelings of justice and care, the underlying basis for the individual's moral code, stem from the way in which the child deals with feelings of inequality and attachment (pp. 114-115) and the manner in which the tensions between the two are resolved (p. 129). For Lark, her feelings of inequality are a significant part of her life. She frequently feels powerless in relation to the older, bigger people around her, and she sees knowledge as the means to increasing her own power. When she learns to swim, she believes that she has made an important advance toward growing up.
Barbara Rogoff and Pablo Chavajay (1996) point out that mastery of some of the more advanced cognitive functions may be more culturally connected than scholars once thought (p. 247). For example, Lark's friend, Beverly Ridza, although coming from a much poorer background than Lark, is able to figure out how to swim and then teaches Lark to swim. Lark is a bright girl an
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