Amazing Grace Kozol Summary

Why Cookies and Ages? In the story, called Amazing Grace, is by Jonathan Kozol. The story about a boy he met in a really poor place. But we will get to that later. Kozol is an educator, writer , and activist. He has spent most of his adult life working with, and writing about what a lot of people ignore. The poor, illiterate, and the homeless one. Now going back to what the story about, the story, Amazing Grace, is about Kozol visiting another poor place, south Bronx. South Bronx was not always a bad place, but that’s for later. While Kozol was visiting south Bronx, and was doing what he usually are doing when he’s at poor places, he met a boy. A seven-year-old boy, whose name is Cliffie. Cliffie is the one who is giving Kozol a tour of the neighborhoods. While Cliffie was giving Kozol the …show more content…
And he also kept asking other people -- who Cliffie said he knew, or looks like he knew, or they knew him -- about their ages. But that was some of the hidden messages Kozol want to say. And getting all the hidden messages, and other text, all taken together, he wanted to say that children and people (especially children), should live a happy life, in a happy and healthy place. “‘I saw a boy shot in the head right over there,’ he says a moment later, in a voice that does not sound particularly sad, then looks up at me and asks politely, ‘Would you like a chocolate chip cookie?’” And that’s not the only place he ask Kozol if he wants a cookie, he kept asking when he says something he thinks is scary or sad. And when he wants to eat another cookie, he found out it’s gone. He said… “After we cross, he