The Book "The Homeless and Their Children" by Jonathan Kozol

In "The Homeless And Their Children," Jonathan Kozol describes the hardships that an illiterate woman and her four children must face everyday. The family lives in New York City, in the Martinique Hotel, on 6th Avenue and 32nd Street. This hotel houses over four hundred families that are homeless. In the essay, Kozol interviews a woman who he calls Laura. She has Kozol read a letter to her because she cannot read. The letter says that her oldest son has lead poisoning and needs to go to the hospital for treatment. Kozol explains that children with lead poisoning may have a lack of coordination or have convulsions; and this may happen all at once or it could happen many years later. Her daughter also has a "rash" which later is identified as scabies.…