Amazing Grace
A detailed Summary of Amazing Grace
Within the next few pages here I intend to address two issues. First I will try to
give a personal review of what I saw this book to hold, and second I will try explain the
revelence which this book has to the field of Public Administration. First try to picture
children in a slum where the squalor in their homes is just as bad as that which is in the
streets. Where prostitution is rampant, thievery a common place and murder and death a
daily occurrence. Crack-cocaine and heroin are sold in corner markets, and the dead eyes
of men and women wandering about aimlessly in the streets of Mott Haven are all to
common., Their bodies riddled with disease, disease which seems to control the
neighborhood. This is Mott Haven, in New York City's South Bronx, the outback of this
American nation's poorest congressional district, also the setting of Jonathan Kozol's
disturbing representation of poverty in this country. The stories, which are captured
Amazing Grace, are told in the simplest terms. They are told by children who have seen
their parents die of AIDS and other disease, by mothers who complain about teenagers
bagging dope and loading guns on fire escapes, by clergy who teach the poor to fight

A profile of the impoverished people of Mott Haven, South Bronx, reveals to the
for an education and the hope it can give them don't just live in the ghettos of the inner
badly for the people in the book, especially the children.
have wounded but not hardened them, such as Anthony did through out the book. The
about the situation of the poor in American today, especially when more and more the
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Approximate Word count = 1020
Approximate Pages = 4 (250 words per page double spaced)
Category: Novels
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