Amazing Grace

             In this book report I will give you a summary of the book. I will try to explain the importance of this book in terms of getting America to recognize the overwhelming problem in raising a child in this environment. Can you imagine there being no difference between the filth on the streets and the filth in your home, both being equally as bad as the other. Crime, and the sex industry are so rampant it goes almost unnoticed by the residents. Crime and drug dealing are common place and basically part of the culture. This is Mott Haven, in New York City's South Bronx.
             In Amazing Grace Kozol explores the lives of children living in Americas' ghettos. He talks to many children about their life experiences and their future. The stories are told in the reality of the children that have lived them. Children that don't know what it is to be a child, children that have seen their parents shot, die of aids , be arrested, as well as seeing their parents dealing and doing drugs. What seems to bother me most about thinking about these situations is the fact that most people don't even want to let on that these situations exist at all; most people feel that they can't be bothered. A handful of children who have--through the love and support of their families and dedicated community leaders have not yet lost their battle with the perils of life in Mott-Haven.
             The people of Mott-Haven have one thing in common though the fact that things in Mott Haven are not likely to improve much in the years to come. Mott Haven and the people in such communities are seen as an oddity a nuisance and a danger by most of white middle class America and the upper class who strive to keep them down and out. Kozol tries to determine how other Americans not living in such poverty allow their fellow Americans to tolerate, misery and death for those living a few subway stops north of glitzy midtown Manhattan. As a country, America doesn'...

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