Noah Count And The Arkansas Ark Analysis

The story Noah Count and the Arkansas Ark has a large focus on education. As the main character and narrator is the most educated within the family he believes he is the most intelligent. While this may seem logically true, his father and grandmother could tell of the rain and the dam breaking with the slightest of hints. Even with his higher education, their experience has led to them having a different kind of education than the boy. “A cat sneezin’ always means rain,” as stated by Granny within paragraph five of the text shows many things. First of all being, she doesn’t seem to speak proper English which means her education must not have been very thorough. The dialogue also foretells that she knows of some way to foretell the weather in a way that the boy is oblivious to. As stated in paragraph four, “There’s nary a cloud in the sky!” as the boy says would lead to the idea that rain wasn’t even going to be a chance on that day. As the story goes however, a coffee pot boiling over, a cat’s sneeze, and a sow carrying a stick was all this little old lady needed to predict the flood coming their way. She is educated within her own way. …show more content…
While he was seen as insane by many and even falsely named Noah, he proved an entire town wrong even with his little to no formal standard education. An entire town vs one man with speculations about a levee seems like a good situation to choose flight over fight. Even with odds stacked against him, his child being caught up in many brawls because of it, and a fresh new biblical title him showed an entire civilization that he didn’t need a college degree to not drown. He was most likely giddy with joy as his ark floating over and past the many critics and those who frowned upon his creation’s