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Amazing Grace By Jonathan Kozol

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Jonathan Kozol, born in 1936 in Boston, is mainly famous for his work in the field of writing on the topic of public education. He completed his graduation degree from Harvard University. His work has made him famous in the world of literature as an activist who wants to bring change in the world of education through his writings. He has written many non-fictional books and article on the topic of education and on the lives of poor but his prominent work includes Death at an Early Age, Rachel and her Children, Amazing Grace: The Lives of Children and the Conscience of a Nation and many others.
Kozol’s work is mainly based on the topics that highlight the issues that many of the poor countries and the kids living in such countries face. These …show more content…

I believe that the Kozol’s way of explaining the events buy dividing it in to two parts made the book more appealing for the writers. The readers will find it very interesting and I personally also find it more attractive while reading the book, as Kozol divided the book into two parts in which the 1st part contain the stories and problems of the children and families that didn’t get away with their issues and recession problems at that time while the other part is termed as the stories and issues of the survivors, that how they experience so many problems while surviving with the problems and how they take themselves out with teat span of time. The book covers the real events of Kozol with such children and how they moved in their lives from childhood to adulthood as the time span of the Kozol’s stay with such children and families was 25 years. The book very critically and importantly explain all minute detail of every event of Kozol’s 25years of stay with these children and the writings of Kozol actually take the readers in to the real life as if they think they are themselves going through these trends and span of life and …show more content…

I think after 25 years the government of US is also playing many of its contribution in the field of education and also in the rehabilitation of such families. According to my intellectual level, if Kozol have connected the time which was faced by him and the poor children 25 years back with the lives of the children which is now in the present that make a connection in between two phases of time then it would make it more appealing to others and many people will feel and understand that which lack in the past and which they can add in the present so that the situation is not repeated or the flaw can be removed from the

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