Analysis Of Hope And The Unseen

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The Hope and The Unseen are mainly about an unprivileged kid who goes to Ballou High School. Out of the 1,389 students, 79 are on the honor roll with at least a “B” average. The school drop-out rate is nearly 50%, and academics are not a priority for these kids. The kids would get 100$ in a check for getting straight A’s. Cedric was the only one who was a male honor student out of all the kids.
Cedric applied to this MIT programs that was called M.I.T.E.S. He got accepted in it and he got to stay at MIT for 6 weeks of his summer. He got in with 52 other honor’s gifted students. He really enjoyed it and he also only took one advance class and that was calculus. The rest of the classes he took were not advanced, they were regular classes.

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