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

Approximate Word count = 1020
Approximate Pages = 4 (250 words per page double spaced)

Category: Novels

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