Essay Archive - Kozol's Amazing Grace: Trials and Tribulations of Everyday Life
Kozol's Amazing Grace: Trials and Tribulations of Everyday Life
Jonathan Kozol's Amazing Grace is a book about the trials and
tribulations of everyday life for a group of children who live in the poorest
congressional district of the United States, the South Bronx. Their lives may
seem extraordinary to us, but to them, they are just as normal as everyone else.
What is normal? For the children of the South Bronx, living with the pollution,
the sickness, the drugs, and the violence is the only way of life many of them
have ever known.
In this book, t....
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