Please help 40p and BL
Reread paragraphs 6 and 7.
I have met children in the sugarcane fields of Brazil who wield huge machetes close to their small limbs. The cane they cut sweetens the cereal on our kitchen tables each morning. They dream of easing the hunger pains in their stomachs.
Poverty is the biggest killer of children. More than 1.3 billion people—one-quarter of the world’s population—live in absolute poverty, struggling to survive on less than one dollar a day. Seventy percent of them are women and children. I dream of a day when people learn how to share, so that children do not have to die.
Why do you think Kielburger provides this kind of supporting evidence? What effect might he hope this information has on the reader? How effective is this information in supporting his controlling idea?
