Amazing Grace

Jonathan kozol and Amazing Grace Caitlin Rennell

Quotes:

"I went to the clinic last week with my mother. Out in front there was a table set up on the street. On the table there was paper bags with condoms and clean needles. I saw the prostitutes lined up waiting for the condoms. I saw the drug users lined up waiting for the needles. It was like seeing a line of ghosts. It looked like all the people there were dying."
This quote means these health clinics are supplying people with materials that they think will help keep people protected from STDs but in the end the needs will become dirty once again and are only being used for drugs and shooting up and the condoms could break they aren't a hundred percent.
This quote contributes to this article because this little boy David who's taking care of his sick mom is seeing these people waiting for needles and condoms knowing exactly who they are, as well as seeing that these people are killing themselves. They all are high or possible carrying STDs but either way are wasting their lives away.

"I believe that we were put here for a purpose, but these people in the streets can't see a purpose. There's a whole world out there if you know its there, if you can see it. But they're in a cage. They cannot see."
This quote means that god puts on us on earth for a reason we are here for a reason, but some of us are to blind to see their purpose in life so they waste it. They do not see all thats in front of them how much potential they have as human beings.
This quote contributes to this article because the people who are out their selling their selves or doing drugs are wasting away who they are, while people are dying of cancer or aids and don't have that long to live. Either way these people need to open up their eyes and stop wasting the person they are and live up to their potential.


"Heroin's making a comeback in our neighborhood. There's something different in it from before, so it's stronger and, I guess, more lethal." He tells one of the street names for the drug is "DOA" - dead on arrival. "If you walk on St. Ann's Avenue at night, you hear the dealers call it out. It's like they're saying, "Come on over here. I'll show you how to end my life.' The dealers are sometimes jittery. They look at you with this strange smile. It's not just hatred. It's as if they're laughing at their lives-and yours."
This quote means that drugs are getting worse as the years go on and more deadly. It says that drug dealers though they don't realize it but they are pretty much asking people if they'd like to end their lives and giving people who want to end their lives a way and that's pretty much told them its ok to commit suicide.
This quote contributes to this article that drugs especially in this story have taken over peoples lives more like young teenagers to people in their late twenties. When teenagers go through bad childhoods or live in a poor household or even with abusive parents its more then likely they will end up in jail and/or get into jail. Just like in this story theres death of children, drugs, and even STDs.

Questions/Comments/Points to Share:

This article left me speechless. Theres so many horrific things going on in this world. People who have had hard childhoods have grown up blind to their potential getting into drugs or prostitution not realizing that they are wasting who they are till its to late and they are dying of cancer or aids. To read this article was intense. It was like hearing that humanity isn't perfect for the first time. A lot of people are really blind to all that was stated in this article. Not everyone is as privileged. Someone dies everyday. This shows the class level of SCAAWMP for all these people are in the lowest level living the poorest lives. Nothing about the middle or high class having these horrific issues.

Why aren't we doing something about people who are suffering and lowering themselves to prostitution and/or drugs? Why are we letting humanity deteriorate like this?