Summary Of Noah Count And The Kansas Art By Gary Blackwood

Throughout, Noah count and the Arkansas art, by Gary Blackwood, the narrator’s perspective changes on his families’ lack of education and the values of education. In the passage, the readers’ can tell by the word usage, that the family has little education. In the story, the narrator thinks his father is crazy, the narrator is ashamed of his family, and finally he no longer complains about the lack of education his family has. At the beginning of the story, the narrator does not believe his father and thinks he is wrong. For example, paragraph five states, “This mornin’ the coffee pot boiled over. Another sure sign of rain.” In paragraph seven the young boy states,” Them things got no basis at all in science.” His father thinks that a heavy rain is coming, but the son thinks that since he has gone to school that his father does not know what he is talking about. Therefore, the narrator thinks he knows everything. In the middle of the storyline, the narrator feels down right embarrassed and ashamed of his family. In fact, he says in paragraph twelve,” To me it was just downright embarrassing.” This clearly states that he is embarrassed of his families’ lack in education. The boy was talking about how the people make fun of his father by calling him Noah Count, …show more content…
Therefore, when the rain came and the levee broke, the uneducated family was better off being on the raft above the water. The text states,” We had a hard go of it, keeping that raft steady in the raging river, but we were a sight better off than the folks on land.” The last paragraph states,” Come September, I went back to school, but never again did I think poorly of my folks for not being educated.” Based off of this quote, the boy finally realizes that there is more than one kind of education, and that without his father’s reasoning they would have ended up like the many others who thought the dad was