Discourse Analysis 2 Kozol explores many different influential techniques in describing the current school systems unbalanced discrimination toward students of lesser communities. In this particular passage Kozol talks to teachers and students from Morris High School. What he uncovers is a vastly racist and biased education system that is denying students the opportunity for equal education. When translating this information from experience to paper Kozol includes personal testimonies, statistics and allows for the students personality and current emotional states to jump off the page. In doing so Kozol creates an incredibly powerful and influential argument about these students lives and current crippling limitations that are placed on them.
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In recreating the world Kozol walked amongst the reader is able to see the crumbling structure these students live within literally and figuratively. Although everything is stacked against these students they try to remain optimistic, but when they know their fate that is looming in their future it's hard to keep up morale across the school. Kozol creates a constricting world for the audience as he describes these kids lives. One example of this visual imagery is used in describing the structure of Morris High School stating “Holes in the walls and ceiling leave exposed the structural brick… sheets of torn construction paper have been taped to windowpanes, but the glare is quite relentless” (Kozol 102). In describing the run down school with problems upon problems Kozol paints this destroyed place of refuge that has now become these students second prison apart from their home life. Students instead are imprisoned within the walls of their school that are “exposed from the structural brick” and has “holes in wall.” This broken school system seeps into the students lives as well and effects them in more ways than one which Kozol continues to unveil with the pictures he paints. This visual imagery is also continued in one of the students own words when describing his school, Israel states “If you threw us all into some different place, some ugly land, and put white …show more content…
Kozol selects the most heart wrenching statistics about the world these kids face in their future such as their graduation rates, the potential of them being accepted into college and even the actuality of them making it past their first year at Morris High School. Kozol writes” the projection I have heard for this years ninth grade class is that 150 or so may graduate four years from now. Which of the kids before me will survive? (Kozol 106) Kozol uses not only staggering statistics about the reality of minorities within a broken school system but he utilizes them to leave a sour taste in the readers mouth about their contribution to this broken cycle. The problem lies within the broken system and the more individuals continue to ignore the problem and think to themselves that someone else will do something, nothing will ever change. Kozol can write as many heart wrenching books as he wishes but until someone actually listens to these statistics and realizes these numbers are students and not just another piece of date nothing will begin to move in the right direction. Unfortunately “there is a tremendous gulf between their skills and capabilities” that is directly correlated from the racist and unsupportive education system (Kozol 105). Kozol slips in the truth
In recreating the world Kozol walked amongst the reader is able to see the crumbling structure these students live within literally and figuratively. Although everything is stacked against these students they try to remain optimistic, but when they know their fate that is looming in their future it's hard to keep up morale across the school. Kozol creates a constricting world for the audience as he describes these kids lives. One example of this visual imagery is used in describing the structure of Morris High School stating “Holes in the walls and ceiling leave exposed the structural brick… sheets of torn construction paper have been taped to windowpanes, but the glare is quite relentless” (Kozol 102). In describing the run down school with problems upon problems Kozol paints this destroyed place of refuge that has now become these students second prison apart from their home life. Students instead are imprisoned within the walls of their school that are “exposed from the structural brick” and has “holes in wall.” This broken school system seeps into the students lives as well and effects them in more ways than one which Kozol continues to unveil with the pictures he paints. This visual imagery is also continued in one of the students own words when describing his school, Israel states “If you threw us all into some different place, some ugly land, and put white …show more content…
Kozol selects the most heart wrenching statistics about the world these kids face in their future such as their graduation rates, the potential of them being accepted into college and even the actuality of them making it past their first year at Morris High School. Kozol writes” the projection I have heard for this years ninth grade class is that 150 or so may graduate four years from now. Which of the kids before me will survive? (Kozol 106) Kozol uses not only staggering statistics about the reality of minorities within a broken school system but he utilizes them to leave a sour taste in the readers mouth about their contribution to this broken cycle. The problem lies within the broken system and the more individuals continue to ignore the problem and think to themselves that someone else will do something, nothing will ever change. Kozol can write as many heart wrenching books as he wishes but until someone actually listens to these statistics and realizes these numbers are students and not just another piece of date nothing will begin to move in the right direction. Unfortunately “there is a tremendous gulf between their skills and capabilities” that is directly correlated from the racist and unsupportive education system (Kozol 105). Kozol slips in the truth