Noah Count And The Arkansas Ark Analysis

In the passage “Noah Count and the Arkansas Ark,” the author explains that not all education is in book-smarts. How he does this is by showing how he felt about their education at first and changed his mind after “the flood” and had been proved to be wrong. This passage can just show how far any knowledge will get you.

It all began with his grandma saying that rain was coming their way. He had questioned this because there was not a cloud in the sky at the time. Then the other Appletons backed her up with other reasons that “proved” that a storm was coming. He had questioned them all because they didn’t have a lot of book knowledge about this stuff and at the time did not have the facts to back it. Later on, in the story his father began