Kozol's Amazing Grace

Jonathan Kozol’s Amazing Grace: The Trials and Tribulations of Everyday Life Jonathan Kozol creates a hauntingly vivid portrait of the South Bronx neighborhood of Mott Haven in his 1995 bestseller Amazing Grace, The Trials and Tribulations of Everyday Life. The shocking truth of Americans living in abject, third-world conditions in the same time zone as myself was incomprehensible. Kozol’s descriptions of crippling poverty, lethal pollution, and almost non-existent health care, bring to mind places …

…his district is a prison. It is an election year, and one candidate has even chosen the slogan, “Leave no child behind”. However, when politicians and many citizens as well, speak of children as our most valuable natural resource, they generally mean their own child, or their niece or nephew. Family values rhetoric can be taken to mean our own immediate families and not our human family. Many a child is left behind. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ **Bibliography**