“Quietly sad and optimistic at the same time. Jesse has such an innocent hopefullness about him; he's bewildered by those in the neighborhood who are complacent with sitting on the bottom rung. I'm not sure if the book is critical of the system (i.e., religion) that encourages poor people from attaining their full potential, or if it's critical of the people who refuse to move up (i.e., insisting that "The Man" is at fault, expecting easy success with no work), but it opens the conversation...”

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