A Bus Ticket and a World Away

What's different about this chapter is that Kristen Green is giving an insight to how the school closing affected different children. I think it's interesting the way she played it out, giving a narrative to each  child. It's upsetting tot think they're  these kids who are looking froward to school and are moving onto different grades, whether kindergarden or sixth, and suddenly, they're told that they can't. Then, because they're just kids, they don't understand it. They don't realize what's going on in that time, much less, the severity of it. As a result, many children grew up being illiterate. They had to work in jobs that required little to no education because that was the only thing they had for their future.

One of the stories that impacted me was that of Doug Vaughn. Kristen Green herself says that "No one asked if the fifteen-year-old being raised by a single mother wanted to go away to school." (Green 153).