The School On Cemetery Road

The school on Cemetery Road, a realistic picture of a small school in rural America, the reader meets and becomes involved with a variety of characters as well as their backgrounds, fears, dreams, successes and failures. This book brings together ordinary perople in an ordinary, almost bankrupt rural school. After days of unseasonably warm, humid weather, thunderstorms, and tornado warnings, a severe storm strikes the school just before lunch on April 15, 1993. Students and faculty members alike scurry for shelter from the threatening winds and flying debris. The storm causes considerable damage to some of the buildings, demolishing one completely. There are a few injuries, mostly minor, but unfortunately, one fatality. Teachers, administrators, students, parents, and others involved are heroic, as well as cowardly; intelligent, while being incredibly stupid; farsighted and dreaming, while still hopelessly bigoted and narrow-minded. These are real people in a real time. Some of the characters are profoundly changed, while others will forever remain the same.

Name thesis:degree_name

Master of Arts in English

Level thesis:degree_level

Masters

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

English

Year

1995

Author dc:creator

• Williams, Sharon

Contributors dc:contributor

• Wayne Blackmon

• English Language and Literature

Statement dc:rights

• © Sharon Williams

Repository record dc:identifier

https://bearworks.missouristate.edu/theses/991

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:bearworks.missouristate.edu:theses-1992