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__Death At An Early Age__ by Jonathan Kozol. Is a book about black students growing up in Boston Public Schools, and their hardships in education do to mistreatment by teachers, staffing and other students. This book was a interesting book and I liked it because of it's focus on what it was really like for these students. For example, there is one student who always got in trouble and was beaten after class everyday when he was only in 6th grade. This is something that is insane to me and would never happene anywhere around here. I don't think many people would survive if this happened to them. I would give this book a 4 out of 5 because of it's great description on the students, but not a 5 because it was boring at times.

"This man unlike the first one was not easygoing and affable at all, although he shared with the first an apparent distaste for both children and, I thought, for the school." This passage has a tone of sarcasm and a sign of dislike. He uses a tone of sarcasm throughout the book as a means of making the tone of the book a little less serious than it is. This sarcasm makes the reader see the seriousness and have some understanding some of the people that were teaching these children.

The message of this book is that a student cannot learn without the basic resources of learning, whether it be teachers, pencils, books, these things are needed for a child to have a good education. This message is shown in a very subtle matter in the very title of the book, __Death At An Early Age__ meaning that these students are basically dead to the world, because they lack the education to progress through it.