Summer Time is Starving Time Anna Quindlen’s essay “School’s Out for Summer” touches on a very important topic in America through current and rough times. Her soul purpose for writing the essay is to get the word out about how children are starving from schools letting out for the summer. Many excellent pieces of evidence are used to bring her point across to the reader. Quindlen uses a gargantuan amount of evidence to prove that children are starving. Anywhere from using statistics to food banks giving out food. She sees child hunger as a very large problem and it is, she even goes as far as saying, “people working for minimum wage can’t afford to eat on their small salaries.” She brings up a great point on how are people supposed to feed their children if they can’t even provide for themselves, and she takes this to heart. Another piece of evidence she uses is that many kids are just sat at home as their parents can not pay for someone to watch their child so therefore the child is at home alone with no one to feed them. …show more content…
“Only fifteen million students get free or cut-rate lunches at school,” this is a very small number considering there is around 100 million students, very rough estimate, in the United States alone. “Only 3 million of those students are in the federal summer lunch program,” this shows that in about 1 out of every 33 students is getting lunch free from the government. Then think about that in the summer with students being left at home, just imagine how far that number