Summertime Hunger: Does it Exist?
Anna Quindlen wrote an essay about children lacking food throughout the Summer. Anna uses powerful stories and statistics to show the reader that childhood hunger throughout the Summer months does indeed, exist.
“It’s the beginning of Summer in America’s cement cities, in the deep hidden valleys of the country and the loop-de-loop sidewalkless streets of the suburbs. For many adults who are really closet kids, this means that their blood hums with a hint of freedom, the old beloved promise of long aimless days of dirt and sweat and sunshine, t-shirts stained with kool-aid and flip-flops gray with street grit or backyard dust...But that sort of Summer has given the way to something more difficult, even darker, that makes you wonder whether year-round school is not a notion of whose time has come...Some kids don’t get enough to eat, no matter what people want to tell themselves.” Quindlen uses descriptions of the Summer-time to make the reader think about their personal life during the season. She then states the issue loud and …show more content…
Anna’s uses numbers and statistics to prove that the nation struggles more making sure their children are fed in the Summer than during the school year. “Do the math: during the rest of the year fifteen million students get free or cut-rate lunches at school, and many of them get breakfast, too. But only three million children are getting lunches through the federal summer lunch program. And hunger in the United States, particularly since the institution of so-called welfare reform, is epidemic.” Anna states that 15 million students get free or cut-rate lunch, but only three million get lunch throughout the summer with the federal summer lunch program. If only three million out of fifteen million are receiving lunch through this program, how are the twelve million other children
Anna Quindlen wrote an essay about children lacking food throughout the Summer. Anna uses powerful stories and statistics to show the reader that childhood hunger throughout the Summer months does indeed, exist.
“It’s the beginning of Summer in America’s cement cities, in the deep hidden valleys of the country and the loop-de-loop sidewalkless streets of the suburbs. For many adults who are really closet kids, this means that their blood hums with a hint of freedom, the old beloved promise of long aimless days of dirt and sweat and sunshine, t-shirts stained with kool-aid and flip-flops gray with street grit or backyard dust...But that sort of Summer has given the way to something more difficult, even darker, that makes you wonder whether year-round school is not a notion of whose time has come...Some kids don’t get enough to eat, no matter what people want to tell themselves.” Quindlen uses descriptions of the Summer-time to make the reader think about their personal life during the season. She then states the issue loud and …show more content…
Anna’s uses numbers and statistics to prove that the nation struggles more making sure their children are fed in the Summer than during the school year. “Do the math: during the rest of the year fifteen million students get free or cut-rate lunches at school, and many of them get breakfast, too. But only three million children are getting lunches through the federal summer lunch program. And hunger in the United States, particularly since the institution of so-called welfare reform, is epidemic.” Anna states that 15 million students get free or cut-rate lunch, but only three million get lunch throughout the summer with the federal summer lunch program. If only three million out of fifteen million are receiving lunch through this program, how are the twelve million other children