Noah Teal's Journey

In this story “Noah Count and the Arkansas Ark” by Gary Blackwood demonstrates that a storm is coming and a boat needs to be built. The little boy thought that this was crazy he underestimated his dad when it came to this crazy idea of him building a huge raft, but the father knew what he was doing.

In “Noah Count and the Arkansas Ark”, Gary Blackwood demonstrates the value of education and how the narrators’ point of view regarding his family’s lack of education changes over the course of the story. This story could demonstrate the story of Noah’s Ark, from the Bible. At the beginning of the story, the author demonstrates the family’s lack of education and how the people in his community thought that his father didn’t know what he was doing. By the end of the story, the narrators’ perspective of his family’s lack of education has changed.

This paper, is an in depth comparison of the similarities and differences between the Bible characters Adam and Noah. Furthermore, this paper will examine the lives of both men as well as God’s influence in their lives. In addition, this will allow the reader to come to the conclusion that Noah is “A Second Creation”, a new beginning of mankind.

The story of Noah and the ark is probably one of the most read stories of the bible. Perhaps it is because of the great tragedy it portrays, or because it is a story of salvation. Noah and his family along with the animals were saved from the flood, while the other people and animals perished as a result of it.

In the passage, “Noah Count and the Arkansas Ark” by Gary Blackwood, the author demonstrates the value of education and how lack of education can still be good. “Noah Count and the Arkansas Ark,” is about a young man who learns a valuable lesson from his family members. Blackwood uses dialogue between the characters, description of the story, and insight on the son’s thoughts to demonstrate the value of education and the acknowledgment to the people without education. First, the dialogue between the characters throughout “Noah Count and the Arkansas Ark” helps establish the values of education and the acceptance that the uneducated can still have knowledge.

The world before the flood was already in turmoil and ruin, enveloped in sin and chaos; it is in this world that Noah’s faith made him the only righteous man. God had entrusted in Noah to complete a very important task that would test his faithfulness to Him. God’s plan was to destroy the world by way of flood as the result of mankind’s misdeeds. He instructed Noah to construct an ark to save his family and all species of animals, two of each kind - male and female. All of them would survive in the ark while God sent down a watery wrath to be swept across the earth, wiping out everything in its path. Noah was obedient; his life revealed qualities of patience and persistence which made him the perfect candidate for the building of the

Everything was destroyed and after the flood Noah sent out a raven the first time, a dove and then waited seven more days and sent out another dove who came back with an olive branch showing growth but he waited another seven days before sending out another dove and decided to open the ark.

As a descendant of Adam and Eve, Noah was both a blameless and righteous man who faithfully walked alongside the Lord. Unlike the others in his generation, Noah did not allow the wickedness to enter into his own life, and God sought favor in this. Genesis 6: 13 reveals the discussion between God to Noah, revealing his plan to destroy every living thing under the heavens due to the violence that seeps in the lives of all creations. The Lord instructed Noah to build an ark out of cypress wood, accommodating the dimensions of forty-five feet long, seventy-five feet wide, and forty-five feet high. One the construction was completed the Lord revealed the occupants of the ark.

In “Genesis” there is another story within it, I had read called Noah’s Ark. As everyone knows or should know that in Noah’s Ark there was a flood. God has seen and had noticed how chaotic and wicked everything was. What God wanted to do was erase any sort of life on what we call Earth. His purpose was not to destroy human life, but wipe take out the all the sin. In the midst of it all there was one man, Noah, among them all that God had

God told him that he was disappointed with how wicked the people had become and that Noah was the only righteous man. So, he assembled his ark, which was smaller than Utnapishtim’s. He built it with his family and filled the boat with two of each animal. In Genesis, the flood lasted forty days and forty nights. To go out and find land post-flood, Noah sent out two birds, one twice. One raven, which came back, then the same dove twice, which came back the second time with an olive branch. When all was said and done, God thanks Noah by sending His bow in the sky (his rainbow) and calls it He and Noah’s

In “Noah Count and the Arkansas Ark” by Gary Blackwood The main character is looking down at his “Folks” for lack of education. Have you ever thought poorly of someone who dropped out of school, well he is with everyone on that. Until He realizes there is more than one type of education. The character after the storm feels his parents are more educated than he assumed. The main kid looks down upon his parents as the reader can only assume because of context; he looks down upon his parents for incompletion of school. Suddenly there is a vastly flowing flood in their land. The main character is dumbfounded and has no idea what to when his dad steps in. His dad knows exactly what to do and this amazed him and changed his viewpoint

Christianity and Islam are to very closely related religions, and they share the same origins, and some of the same history. The Koran and the Old Testament of the Bible are very closely related, in that many of the stories share the same points and characters. One of the overlapping stories is the story of the Flood. Although the main point or objective of the story is the same the means that each book gets there by is very different. Although in both Koran and in the Bible, Noah is the messenger to God, he plays opposing roles in each of the stories. The outcome of both though is the same.

Robert White does a great job of explaining both sides of the legend of Noah’s Flood. After reading Noah’s Flood. The New Scientific Discoveries about the event that changed History by Ryan W. and Pitman W., White points out the fact the geological evidence does not support the occurrence of the flood, however he also states that the origin of the story could be plausible. As I read the review done by Robert White I gained the knowledge that religion plays a good portion into the biblical story, making me question the flood’s happening, but when I heard the hypothesis that Ryan and Pitman introduced it seems a bit more believable. From logical ideas of how the Black Sea would have flooded to why the biblical version does not add up.

In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, on the seventeenth day of the second month – on that day all the springs of the great deep burst forth, and the floodgates of the heavens were opened. And rain fell on the earth forty days and forty nights. Pairs of all creatures that have the breath of life in them came to Noah and entered the ark. The animals going in were male and female of every living thing, as God had commanded Noah. Then the Lord shut him in. For forty days the flood kept coming on earth, and as the waters increased they lifted the ark high above the earth. The water rose and increased greatly on the earth, and the ark floated on the surface of the water. They rose greatly on the earth, and all the high mountains under the entire heavens were covered. The waters rose and covered the mountains to a depth of more than twenty feet. Every living thing on the face of the earth was wiped out; men and animals and the creatures that move along the ground and the birds of the air were wiped from the earth. Only Noah was left, and those with him in the ark.

Throughout most of ancient mythology, there have been many prevalent themes. Some of which make a point, show chaos and eventual order, or demonstrate heroism. As one of the most well known pieces of literature, the Christian Bible presents all of these themes many times, in many different ways. One story in the Bible that offers all these themes is the story of Noah and the Ark, in Genesis. During the entirety of this story, Noah establishes that he is a reliable believer in God and that he is willing to do whatever God tells him to do.