Summary Of Jonathan Kozol's Fire In The Ashes

In the book Fire In The Ashes by Jonathan Kozol , who is a famous journalist and writer, he explores the poverty and the life of several kids from New York. There are two kids named Eric and Christopher. Eric who is black and Christopher who is white. Both kids lived in the Martinique Hotel and both kids entered the hotel because one of their parents had died. Christopher barely has any friends. Unlike Christopher, Eric, has a few friends and they influence him in negative ways. While Eric and Christopher did not enter the shelters at the same exact age or had the same gender parent die in common, they both end up committing