Kozol

Reading Amazing Grace, the society was very community based. The boy, the author was walking with, seemed to know a lot of the people walking around and was very friendly. With the questions the author asks such as the boy's heroes, I can tell where he comes from and what his ideals are. Also, I can tell what kind of schooling he has had by the response to "Have you read about George Washington?". This is hard to read how the education can be so much different depending where you live.
When the mother and the author discuss how it feels to have the incinerator in her neighborhood reminds me of this activity I once participated in one of my past courses. To briefly describe this activity: there is one head person, and an authority figure. The rest of the class was separated into three groups.  We were then given instructions to build a city but each of the groups had different rules.  We would need to get building permits and such... To make a long story short, each group represented a class: Upper, Middle and Lower. I was part of the lower class. Our group would be punished for doing nothing, they would make our city smaller, and the authority figure would deny our building permits.  It was a very interesting activity because we kind of got a feel of how it would be within these classes. Such as her description on how she feels living in this city. No one respects them because they are at the bottom. That should not be the case; everyone should be respected.
I think the author was trying to show an inside life of someone who lived in the lower class, like my activity, to show how people feel. To show they are just like everyone else and have hardships. I believe he is trying to educate and broaden people's minds.
The article gets really difficult to read listening to the awful stories at the hospital. It is unbelievable of the mistreatment of these people in the hospital. And terrible to think this is happening in my home country.  What will or can be done to help this community.