Crow lake

Education "The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living differ from the dead."(Aristotle) The importance of education is effectively illustrated in the book Crow Lake by Mary Lawson and also in Alden Nowlan's poem Warren Pryor. Both Kate's family and Warren's family highly value the importance of education and both families expect their children to receive higher education. Both Kate and Warren used education as a tool to escape poverty. However, they differ in their feelings toward education and the life chosen by their parents. Both Kate Morrison's family and Warren Pryor's family believe that education is crucial and they are determined to send their children to receive higher education. Kate's great grandmother had a passion for education which infected and influenced Kate a lot. "Education was her dream of dreams, a passion so strong it was almost a disease, and she infected not only her children with it but generations of little Morrisons unborn."( Lawson, 23) She wanted all her offspring to receive education and have a successful life. It was because of her great grandmother's passion that Kate was send to school to receive proper education. Kate has heard the stories of her great grandmother since very young and "grew up knowing about her dreams and being aware of her gaze."( Lawson, 27) She was given the responsibility of receiving higher education and fulfill her great grandmother's dream. Moreover, Matt, being Kate's brother, also expected Kate to have higher education. When he got accepted by an university, he told Kate that "and then I'll pay for you to go to university, too."(Lawson, 187) He also sees education as something indispensible and insist on sending Kate to obtain good education. Warren Pryor's family, in a way similar to Kate's, also regards education as critical to one's success. They struggled to send their child to school despite the fact that the family was poor. " When every pencil meant a sacrifice, his