San Lupo Drive Chapter Summary

Referring back to Earth Abides the need for an explicit curriculum is needed for Ish and his community to teach the next generation explicit rules, whether it is for survival or for a better understanding of their history and the world around them. In fact, the library by San Lupo Drive becomes essential in the life of Ish as he himself looks back to gain more knowledge and to better understand the new forming society. The library is key to the new founded society, as stated by Turner, education and written language provide “the collective knowledge of a society is abundant and can be gathered in a way that can later be retrieved and passed down to future generations” and this is what Ish takes action on. After the year of the twins and as Joey and the rest of the kids grew older, Ish saw a big necessity in teaching the kids about what was common sense to the older generation and used the library in order …show more content…
The representation of ritualized passages is absent n the novel; but there is a combination of both, formal and informal instruction. In the beginning, the community focuses on teaching the kids the basic needs for survival, like how to gather resources, it wasn’t until the year of Schoolteaching that Ish began to think there was a need for formalized instruction. As stated, education not only serves the purpose of passing down knowledge, it also reproduces culture and encourages social change. Unlike kinship, education seems to resemble that of late agrarianism instead of hunting and gathering societies. Before the great disaster, it can be assumed that formal instruction was taken place; after all, Ish was a graduate student. It would make sense to imply that there was an established form of education and, therefore, after the great disaster, Ish decided to continue the education process within his new