Abandoned buildings

Isolation

1 bank

1 supermarket

poor quality

overpriced

48 lottery agents

99 bars/liquor stores

schools 20 years with out libraries or playgrounds

Magnet schools represent wealthy families and drain resources of other schools

Wealthy Chicago residents avoid public school because of media portrayal

Mayor quoted, ‘Nobody in his right mind, would send his kid to a public school’

Nothingness

Lack of empathy

Faith

Foreshadowing

Other People’s Children

North Lawndale and the Southside of Chicago

High taxes,

lack of funding, gaps in funding, lack of jobs,

all perpetuate cycle of poverty to be expected

62-81% drop out rates due to students loss of faith in system

Corla Hawkins

Gospel choir in school

poetry about faith

perceptible optimism

students lose faith in the system