Jonathan Kozol's Savage Inequality By Victor Villanueva

In Jonathan Kozol’s essay, “Savage Inequalities”, he describes his observations from visiting three schools in New York that contrast in economic class, and argues that the education for students from a lower economic class is utterly poor compared to students who are more fortunate economically. Kozol targets an audience that consists of academic scholars, administrators, and educators. In the essay “An American of Color” Victor Villanueva explains what it was like growing up as a Puerto Rican New Yorker and argues that through hybridity he was able to climb up the economy ladder and become an English professor. Villanueva’s targeted audience includes parents, immigrants, and minorities. Both, Kozol and Villanueva had persuasive essays however, it was Kozol’s essay that was more persuasive for his intended audience of academic scholars, administrators, and educators. By

Kozol appeals to ethos and logos to persuade his audience of academic scholars, administrators, and educators that he is credible and specific details that contribute to his claim. Kozol explains the population of all three schools to identify the obvious differences between the three schools, “The school serves 825 children in the kindergarten through sixth grade. This is approximately half the student population crowded into into P.S. 79, where 1,550 children fill a space intended for 1,000, and a great deal smaller than the 1,300 children packed into the former skating rink”(Kozol 470). Kozol receives credibility as an author as this demonstrates his hard work that was needed in order to prove that there is an issue in the education system. Kozol had to