Reading Amazing Grace was a tough reading. It was tough because it shows the harsh reality of living in an impoverished neighborhood such as the South Bronx. Its a neighborhood where some children witness killings, live in infested homes, and everywhere you turn has a drug addict. People tend to die at an early age. Each page contained information that wasnt positive, such as the drug addicts. Jonathan Kozol talks about the murders that took place. He continues disscuss how poorly people from impoverished nieghborhoods are treated by the government. For example the SSI checks Mrs. Washington's friend who died of AIDS should of got but didnt get until she died, or when a girl died at the age of fifteen of AIDs and her uncle had to try and raise money to burry her. I didnt know there was so many drug addicts and people with AIDs in my old neighborhood.
I was once told that "What you dont have you dont know." I grew up in this neighborhood and until I read this reading i did not realize how bad it was. Although it wasnt the safest place it was home to me and many others. I didnt see my neighborhood the way it was described or perhaps i fail to notice it, but since this book was written i hope there have been improvments.
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