The Thread That Runs So True A Brief Summary

The vivid flesh out puts the reader into era that Stuart lived. He gives some information most his life, but most importantly he tells about the community in which he taught school and the ideas of the people around that time, and the emphasis they put on education. He talks about his baby and how that may have been the deciding factor that made him take up to teach. He talk about L starsome valley and the people thither, along with his long time wizard Don Conway. rib Hawkins is probably one of the most pivotal people in his career he came across.Some of the things Stuart had to do in his career would definitely not be acceptable in this twenty-four hour period a time. The first chapter of the book tells how his decision to teach and where he chose as his first school was at. His sister had taught there a year earlier and one of the students Guy Hawkins had blacked both her eyes and beat her up middling bad. He lied about his age to get the teaching certificate. His parents q uestioned his motive for teaching and choosing the school he chose. He assured them it was not for vengeance.Stuart was not intentionally looking for a fight but he was determined not to let them get away With hurting his sister. When he got the job he was take aback at the condition of the school house ND how the people in the area didnt make their kids go to school. He did understand in those times all members of the family had to help with the chores of the house. Once the crops were harvested then the attendance picked up. It was a one room school with grades one through eight. He was expecting the student who beat up his sister to in ideate the encode enter. angiotensin-converting enzyme that Stuart was not looking forward to he was smaller than Guy. Late one day Guy came sneaking around the school looking for Stuart. In the school house he confronted him and told Stuart about beating up his sister and he was ongoing to do the same to him. Stuart had run this converge through his mind more than once his preparedness gave him an upper hand. When Guy lunged for Stuart it was pretty much over from the start. Stuart was the victor he won the fight. But more importantly he won the respect of Guy and the whole community.Stuart was the only person to defeat Guy in a fight. Plus Lonesome valley people lived with the mentality might makes right. The stronger your was the better. He cleaned up the school house and repainted it. The next year he had a better idea of what he had to do. The attendance picked up, he was involved in his kids lives. And he showed a lot in the community how a proper education was worth its weight in coal. One of the people in the community came by with a wagon of coal. He had his students estimate its weight.When the man took it to marketplace he was shocked to see he had been cheating himself for many years because he was inaccurately astute how much he had. Jesse realized how politics and social structure played a part in the gene ral lives. People judged everyone on just about everything where they went to church what they wore, or who they talked to. It was a very judgmental and politically motivated time. He became interested in a women in the next town, he tells about one night getting ambushed while walking to see her. He was egged and had gunshots fired over his head.He took his divide out of this one room school and put them against a city school in an donnish challenge and won. Shocking most of the people in the big city school who made cheer of the group as they entered town. His way of teaching and figuring what needed to be done in the classroom was what got his students the achievements they did. His determination to succeed is what fueled his willingness to teach. From his time at this school he went on to be head at Landlubbers High. He still walked to school because teacher salaries were not much.It took dedicated people to be teachers. He faced similar challenges as far as attendance goes. He started his career as main(prenominal) walking to school five miles it was then he found out people were questioning if he died his clothes because they were discovered. That is when he learned of an unwritten rule about the principal having to live in town. When he moved to the local hotel e seen why he had attendance problems. His students were out all hours of the night. He discover them drinking, gambling and rebel rousing.He came across a game behind the school fence one day as he walked by he asked oho was winning causing the students to scramble. He said nothing to them it was the prediction that was torturing the students. But one thing he learned was if the POT was not in bargain he was not going to get anywhere with punishments. When they called a meeting and during the meeting he was impeach of letting it go on he confronted them. Telling them exactly what he observed and what children were involved, many were with child(p) figures in the community.It was then t hat he was able to implement changes and make the school better for all the students at the time. Throughout Stuart career as an educator he had many trials and triumphs. What was amazing is how education was view at the time. The emphasis was not to educate but to give them something to do in the off period of market-gardening in rural Kentucky. In the city it was not as much as the off season but the social standing was what decided whether the child was a success in life. It as interest to see how much teachers got paid and how they were at the mercy of the people who sponsored them.