In the excerpt “Amazing Grace” by Jonathan Kozol, a reporter and a activist, is about a place in New York city, called South Bronx where he explores the neighborhood around a beautiful old church called Saint Ann’s, with a charming seven year old little boy named Cliffie. In the most diseased and dangerous places in the USA, he finds grace. Cliffie shows Kozol a lot of places while eating cookies. The author chooses to share this to show how hard it is for the people, but still, they are happy. Though some people might not see or feel other’s pain, that doesn't mean they have the right to hurt them or insult them.
One way the people of South Bronx are insulted are the extra things that gets put in their city that they don’t want. An example
One way the people of South Bronx are insulted are the extra things that gets put in their city that they don’t want. An example