There Are No Children Here
There Are No Children
We all have a have different perspectives of something. In the book “There Are No Children
Here”. Alex Kotlowitz emphasizes the phrase the “The other side of America.” The author opposes to the stereotypes of families living in the projects, inner-city schools, and the drug dealers.
In the beginning, Kotlowitz demonstrates the boys innocently playing around the train tracks.
But when the hear the train coming, the children freeze, run away in fear or are in tears. The children lays on the ground very still. One of them says “keep quiet.” (6) The boys heard rumors that the commuters on the train has guns and will shoot. While the commuters heard the same rumors and avoid the windows. Even though, the suburban commuters are just trying to get to work. Kotlowitz illustrates that both groups considers that each one is a threat due to the ignorant fabrications. The mistaken conceptions they have with each other is the real enemy.
We have preconceive notions of families living in the projects. We believe it's the people that reside there is the reason why their environment is so atrocious. But the residents are not truly the one to blame. The low income housing project was meant to be a positive “low-rent housing units nationwide and provide shelter for the less fortunate.” (21) The alderman wanted to build houses for the poor. But the housing complexes was still constructed in a poor area, where there is no opportunity to prosper. Hypothetically, if you want to make a something on a optimistic note; you would want to build the housing somewhere that has potential and give the people hope and personal gain. But Horner was built cheaply which led to a slum. There are cinder blocks to separate apartments. Even a group of
Soviets that visited said “We would be thrown off our jobs in Moscow if we left unfinished walls like this.” (22) Kotlowitz implies that it is not the faults of the poverty stricken people because of the poor
We all have a have different perspectives of something. In the book “There Are No Children
Here”. Alex Kotlowitz emphasizes the phrase the “The other side of America.” The author opposes to the stereotypes of families living in the projects, inner-city schools, and the drug dealers.
In the beginning, Kotlowitz demonstrates the boys innocently playing around the train tracks.
But when the hear the train coming, the children freeze, run away in fear or are in tears. The children lays on the ground very still. One of them says “keep quiet.” (6) The boys heard rumors that the commuters on the train has guns and will shoot. While the commuters heard the same rumors and avoid the windows. Even though, the suburban commuters are just trying to get to work. Kotlowitz illustrates that both groups considers that each one is a threat due to the ignorant fabrications. The mistaken conceptions they have with each other is the real enemy.
We have preconceive notions of families living in the projects. We believe it's the people that reside there is the reason why their environment is so atrocious. But the residents are not truly the one to blame. The low income housing project was meant to be a positive “low-rent housing units nationwide and provide shelter for the less fortunate.” (21) The alderman wanted to build houses for the poor. But the housing complexes was still constructed in a poor area, where there is no opportunity to prosper. Hypothetically, if you want to make a something on a optimistic note; you would want to build the housing somewhere that has potential and give the people hope and personal gain. But Horner was built cheaply which led to a slum. There are cinder blocks to separate apartments. Even a group of
Soviets that visited said “We would be thrown off our jobs in Moscow if we left unfinished walls like this.” (22) Kotlowitz implies that it is not the faults of the poverty stricken people because of the poor