The book There Are No Children Here by Alex Kotlowitz we follow the lives of two black boys; 10-year-old Lafayette, and 7 year old Pharoah, as they struggle to beat the odds growing up in one of Chicago's worst housing projects. They live in a subsidized housing project called Henry Horner Homes. The family relies on welfare and federal assistance for support and thus cannot afford most luxuries and many necessities; therefore, life is an ongoing …showed first 75 words of 885 total…

…showed last 75 words of 885 total…buildings and gunfire. In a place where gangs become your family, and drug money can make you more than Mc Donald’s, It isn’t hard to understand why kids in the inner city turn out the way they do. It is all that they know. Knowledge is power, but if you only have the knowledge of the streets, then that is where you will always be, and that is where you will probably die.