Amazing Grace-Kozol

Hayley Dias
Amazing Grace- Kozol
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8/18/16

Kozol, adresses a point in his piece of writing that one who reads it unveils his or her true feelings an affects on children who live in communities like New York. I was never aware of how truly bad this part of New York truly was. I have been to New York but always as a tourist.

Kozol, tells us about a young boy who lives in the bronx in a society where Kozol meets him and the young boy gives him a tour of the bronx. The young boy lives in the South Bronx one of the poorest parts of New York. Children in this area of the bronx live around drugs, disease and deaths. Most leading deaths is led from drugs with overdose. Cliffe the boy who gives Kozol the tour of the bronx experiences a city that he had never grew up in an lived through. " Crack Cocaine addiction and intravenous use of heroin which children I have met here call. "the needle drug" nearly 4,000 heroine injectors many of who are the ones HIV-infected." 

     

This displays a prime example of how drugs and diseases are affecting our society today, an particular shown in one part of the U.S in the Bronx, New York. Children suffering each an everyday because they are being brought up in a community and society like this. New York is visually seen as one of the dirtiest places especially in the bronx and Cliffe describes this to Kozol who is not familiar with it at all until he realizes the life that these children go through with having parents involved in drugs and alcohol which lead them to death.

In this video I found it shows how unfit the community of living in the Bronx. It displays for viewers to see how there community is, there are graffiti and arts painted all over the corners of there side of the city. Each corner store with big fences and abandoned buildings. Shacks of buildings and stores that are mostly all closed. The views of living in such a dark community where there is no urban side. Children who grow up in a community like this are not at fault but should get the necessary help and there families to be in a better community so they are raised and treated like each and every child. They are no different! If I could help change our society and help there community, I would but our nation needs to see this effect on other families who are different and don't have that luxury life... and are struggling to live.

Poverty takes on a huge role in this article based on how families live day by day. Reading this article it began to break my heart on how low the poverty level was. Children do not deserve to go through a life that way and deserve the help they need. Every child deserves a good education no matter where they live and who they are.