In "There Are No Children Here", Alex Kotlowitz writes a powerful, sometimes discouraging but always hopeful book. Alex Portrays two inner city brothers, who live in a world of crime, poverty, and with little hope for an adequate education, equal housing, and a safe community. Lafeyette and Pharoah demonstrate how structural forces control the poor. The education of Pharoah and Lafeyette proves inadequate to any human standards. Gangs also confirm that structural forces control the …showed first 75 words of 1098 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1098 total…in the inner city is undeniable. Kids that have the courage and make it out of their "social" nightmares are one in a million. These social groups not only hold them down from advancing in social class but put a strain on their lives, in poor conditions. Not only will life not change in the projects until these social groups are abolished it will eventually demolish and in time the community will be lost forever.