Lives on the Boundary

Lives on the Boundary by Mike Rose is about, as the title says, boundaries. Its mostly about educational boundaries that most of America deals with, but emotional boundaries as well.
The author talks about his many boundaries of being poor which he had to surpass. From educational boundaries, such as him learning to spell correctly in graduate school, to the more difficult topics of him having to leave home because of the hopeless environment.
Everyone around him was just accepting where they were at and weren't pushing past the boundaries that were put on them. After a family friend shoots himself in Rose's home, and with the help of a kind teacher, Rose realizes he has to leave. Throughout the book Rose fights for equal education among students and talks about subjects such as America's small budget for education and why it is important for things to change.
The book was very inspiring. Mike Rose had been through a lot. He came such a long way from where he was raised. It was definitely an eye opener and an inside look of some of the students who have had to push past boundaries that some of us will never have to experience.