chapter 1-5

In chapters one through five in There are no children here it starts off with the two Pharoah and Lafeyette playin on the railroad with a group of there friends. Then it goes on to explain the neighborhood that these two live in. The two boys are growing up in the projects of Chicago. In this neighborhood there no activities for the kids to do there are only two clinics. Fourty-six percent of the people who live in the  Governor Henry Horner Homes projects are living in poverty. They are living off of a monthy check provided by welfare. The kids in this neighborhood turn to the streets and drugs and land in jail. It tells us how Lafeyette became a product of his environment by hanging with the wrong people.  On the other hand Pharoah was the complete opposite even though he was only nine years old he had full control over his childhood. As kids they have witnessed more funerals than weddings. Most kids won't even live to be eighteen. They get caught in violence between rival gangs in their neighborhood