Inspirational..funny...heartbreaking..great book
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This is a great book for many reasons. One of my favorite parts of this book is the dialogue between Conroy and the kids of the Island. It is hilarious! I laughed out loud on quite a few occasions. The personalities of the students come alive. Conroy's descriptive writing is mesmerizing, and the deeper themes are also emotionally captivating. Anyone who has been a teacher will be able to relate to Conroy's idealistic dreams...
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Before Pat Conroy became a successful author he was a teacher. This book chronicles the one year he spent teaching in a two-room schoolhouse on Yamacraw Island off the coast of South Carolina. It is a moving and often funny story of one man's attempt to bring education to eighteen mostly-forgotten black children. Children who didn't know the name of the ocean at their front door, didn't know who was their President, didn't...
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In The Water is Wide, by Pat Conroy, he does a great job of writing about his experiences on an island called Yamacraw where he is faced with difficult challenges. He shows us how he developed a bond with these childreb abd taught them things they may have never known before. I thoroughly enjoyed this book because he made you feel as if you were him and that you were one of the students watching from afar. This book also...
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