“Amazing Sophistication” is a book about about the hearts of kids who grow up in the South Bronx – the poorest congressional area of our country. The children we fulfill through the deepening friendships that evolve between Jonathan Kozol and their families defy the stereotypes of metropolitan youth too frequently presented on TV and in newspapers. Tender, generous, and frequently religiously devout, they speak with unpleasant clarity about the poverty and racial isolation which have wounded but not solidified them. ” about Amazing Elegance It’s not like being inside a prison,” says 15-year-old Isabel. “It’s similar to being hidden. It’s just like you have been devote a garage where, if they don’t have space for something but aren’t sure if indeed they should throw it out, they place it there where they don’t really need to think about it once again.” Without rhetoric, but sketching extensively upon the words of children, parents, and priests, this publication will not romanticize or soften the effects of violence and sickness. “Amazing Grace” makes apparent how the postmodern ghetto of America is not a social incident but is created and suffered by greed, neglect, racism, and expedience. It asks queries like – what’s the value of a child’s lifestyle? what do we intend to do with those whom we have made a decision are superfluous? how difficult perform we dare to be?