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Summary Of School's Out For Summer By Anna Quindlen
A Summer’s Silent Famine

In recent years the growing rate of starving children in the world, and also majorly in the United States, has affected many families and children of all ages. In “School’s Out for Summer” by Anna Quindlen, The author Anna writes and discusses in a 1st person view of what it’s like for everyday people that struggle to feed their family or kids just for a few meals a day and the rising hunger problems that ensue.

Anna, often wittily, throughout the article goes into detail how many families and schools who are not in government-funded food programs are forced to make ends meet at the end of their child’s school year to provide lunches and meals at home. She seems to see the U.S.’s epidemic as pretty hypocritical

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