- The article is about Kozol going to the heart of New York City and seeing the "ghetto" and taking a walk through the city with a kid named Cliffie. They walk through various parts of the city and walk through streets that include seeing a park where Cliffie tells Kozol that he sees a bear in a bush where he watched a child get shot in the head and die. Kozol then talks to other people about the hardship that is the heart of New York City.
Kozol talks the most about how much hardship goes on within the city of New York especially parts like Harlem and the South Bronx.
He backs those points up within the text when he goes with Cliffie on the walk when he talks about what they saw on the walk.
- They see the bear that is in the bush from the kid that Cliffie saw get shot in the head.
- Kozol talks about how some families in the winter are so cold the city must provide them with sleeping bags and how they would sleep at night with jackets and hats on.He also talks to the women who talks about how hot it can be on some days. He sees her on a 94 degree day when she says that the heat takes a lot out of her and she rarely has the strength to get up and open a window but is afraid to do so at the fear of theb heat being worse outside.
- Reverand Overall talks about most streets have prostitutes roaming the streets as well as many houses who have lots of people with the AIDS virus.
I thought that this read was not only very interesting but also very scary. The fact that so many people in that area had AIDS scared me but i thought that it was very interesting that Kozol got to go on a walk through the streets where he saw everything that Cliffie saw. I thought it was a very descriptive piece and I really enjoyed it. I recommend this to any person who would enjoy something like that. Cliffie was a lot of fun to read about but I felt really bad that a person that was said to be so nice as he is, has to deal with a hardship like the one he deals with every morning when he wakes up.
