Let Them Eat Cake

Did you eat lunch today? In today’s society many children go hungry, especially during the summer months. We turn a blind eye to the starving children in our own country, and focus on those who starve in third world countries. Most children dread the summer months, because they know they will cease having healthy and fulfilling meals, that they would normally have during the school hours. In the essay, “School’s Out for Summer”, written by Anna Quindlen, she addresses the problems families have during the summer months and uses bona fide evidence to persuade the reader to see her own point of view.

For some children, summer seconds fly by, but for others, the summer months trudge on slowly and lonely. In Anna Quindlen's …show more content…
“During the rest of the year fifteen million students get free of cut-rate lunches at school, and man of the get breakfast, too. But only three million children are getting lunches through the federal summer lunch program.” Quindlen constantly throws factual evidence towards the reader, and gives her sources to back up her evidence. “ A group of big-city mayors released a study showing that in 2000, requests for food assistance from families increased almost 20 percent, more than at any time in the last decade. And last Thanksgiving a food bank in Connecticut gave away four thousand more turkey than the year before..” Anna’s persuasive and strong evidence proves that the problems that the children face are real and moves the reader to agree with her decision.

As Anna’s essay concludes, she points out that these problems are very real and are happening in our own country. She asks people to open her eyes to the children around us. In her essay, “School’s Out for Summer”, she shows the problems of hunger and poorly taken cared of children summer break can cause, and adequately uses evidence to persuade her reader to come to the conclusion of abolishing summer break. Which brings us back to the question, What did you have for lunch? Because some didn’t have