Analysis Of Schools Out For Summer By Anna Quindlen

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America v.s. Hunger

“Families are struggling in a way they haven’t done for a long time,” says Brian Loring, the executive director of Neighborhood Centers of Johnson County, Iowa. Anna Quindlen’s purpose of her essay, “Schools Out for Summer”, was to explain and persuade people in America to give back food the the hungry. In her essay, the main problem is children starving. The main places it occurs that she talks about is and school and when it’s home during the summer time. In the essay, she makes statements that justifies that students rarely starve in school, versus being at home. We notice evidence when she says “The success of the school lunch programs has been, of course, that the food goes where the children are.” Quindlen stated

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