"Amazing Grace" by Jonathan Kozal focuses on race and poverty by exploring lives of inner-city people in the Bronx. Author Jonathan Kozal focuses on the troubles of everyday life for children who live in the poorest district of the United States, Mott Haven, in New York City's Bronx. These black and Hispanic children strive for survival while living in a community of violence and disease. Thousands of people were killed from fires, accidents shootings or …showed first 75 words of 1130 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1130 total…their society. I think a food shelf and abuse victims shelter would also help improve. I thought that drugs are the center of all the problems, poverty, killing and job wise. If people made it easier for the Bronx citizens to stop the drug abuse, the financial problems would lessen and there would be less depression. Lastly I think that the Bronx is not a lost cause, more of a challenge waiting to be won.