Noah Count And The Arkansas Ark Analysis

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In the story “Noah Count and the Arkansas Ark” the narrator has a change in mind about how he feels about his parents’ lack of education. The narrator used to feel like you needed an education to be a credible person. At the beginning of the story the author feels like is parents are uneducated and say the most ridiculous things, and eventually he becomes so embarrassed he wouldn’t even want to be seen with his father. However, by the end of the story he realizes that his parents don’t need an education to be smart and begins to look up to his father.

To start off the story the narrator feels like his parents just ramble on about nonsense. In the opening dialogue the narrator hears what his parents are saying about rain and responds by sighing

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