Summary Of School's Out For Summer By Anna Quindlen

Analyzing “School’s Out for Summer”

When the author, Anna Quindlen wrote her essay “School’s Out for the summer”, she had a main purpose to why she wrote it. The purpose to writing such an essay was persuasion, persuasion to fellow American citizens that child hunger does not only exist in places such a Africa, but in our own country America as well. In America, nearly about all of us tune out the fact that child hunger is a major issue within the country, especially during summer. Persuading one’s who don’t realize the situation to open their eyes and help stop this devastating truth little by little. “And some kids don’t get enough to eat, no matter what people want to tell themselves”, stated in the text. This statement speaks nothing but the truth. It may be hard to believe that our first world high technology advanced country is dealing with this problem because it is not something we may not be accustomed or adapted to. But estimated by The Agriculture Department, twelve million children were hungry or at the risk of going hungry. The majority of children depend on their daily school meals to be what provides them with their daily needs of nutrition and something to fill that emptiness in their stomachs. But what happens when children hit summer break? They no longer have those daily meals they were provided with during school. Most do not typically think about that.

But in most cases they are families with parents who are minimum wage workers who can’t afford to eat on their salaries.”Families are struggling in way they haven’t done for a long time’’. They may go without eating then what the healthy or appropriate eal gap is supposed to be. Their children although may be fed from their parents because they are often more of a priority for them to eat then the actual parents. There are cases which neither are able to eat a