Summary Of Noah Count And The Arkansas Ark

In the passage “Noah Count and the Arkansas Ark” by Gary Blackwood; the Appleton family demonstrates to the son the that even without proper education there is still other kinds of education even though he doubted them. The reason he doubted them was that they never had a proper education that is taught at school. The father’s nickname was Noah because he was building a raft to escape the flood that was coming into Mississippi. The way the family was able to make the narrators view about their education change was due to that it was raining even though there weren’t any clouds, their early preparation, and that they found good land to wait out the flood and got back to their farms.

Even though the narrator stated that there were no clouds the rain and the flash flood still happened. During paragraph 1-7, the grandma heard a cat sneezed and said that rain was soon coming. The son doubted this and mentioned that there were no clouds in the sky; however, his father and mother both told about how sows are carrying sticks in their mouth and how coffee pots boiled over. They took these events as signs of rain; the son stated: “Them things got no basis at all in science”. Later on, after his father finished building a raft and the

The reason the raft was known as the ark was due to that the raft could hold the entire Appleton family, their animals, and some of their livestock as stated in paragraph 11. The father soon received the nickname of Noah or Noah count; the other people thought he was crazy for building the raft according to paragraph 12-13. However, this later helped him and his family when the flash flood occurred; because of his early preparations, his family and their animals and some livestock were able to escape safely. The other people didn’t prepare early like the father so they had to sit on the roof of their houses on getting on small boats as said in paragraph