The Water Is Wide

In Chapter 5, Conroy engages his students by incorporating movies and music in the curriculum, despite opposition from the principal, who believes teaching should focus on drilling basic...

In Chapter 11, on a trip with the children where he hopes to teach them to swim, Conroy hears he is to be fired. A passionate confrontation between the school board and Conroy's supporters results...

In chapter 8 Conroy decides to move from his house on the island and back to his family home. It means he will have to take a longer commute across the river, but he says he has always enjoyed the...

In chapter nine of The Water is Wide, Pat notices that the boys enjoy playing basketball at school each day. To this end, he arranges to take them to a Harlem Globetrotters game when he discovers...

When Pat arrives at the school at which he is to teach, it becomes immediately apparent that conventional methods of teaching and pedagogical strategies are not going to be of any use here. His...

The main conflict in The Water is Wide is the gap between how Pat Conroy believes he can successfully educate his class and what he's allowed to do by the administration. This conflict comes to a...

Hopefully someone will post 1-4, but we currently have free summaries for chapters 5-12 at the following links: Chapters 5 and 6 Chapter 6 Chapter 7 Chapter 8 Chapter 9 Chapter 10 Chapters 11 and 12

Conroy has had issues with Principal and co-teacher Mrs. Brown from the beginning of the book, but in Chapter 7 he explores their relationship in greater detail. Mrs. Brown is a black woman with...

After being confined to the classroom during the winter months, Conroy renews his determination to expose the children to the outside world and prepare them for their eventual departure from...

The book "Water is Wide" is told from a first person point of view. The work is autobiographical, and the story is related through the eyes of the author, Pat Conroy, himself. In using...

The protagonist, or central character of the story, is the author, Pat Conroy. The primary antagonist, or force that works against him, is the educational bureaucracy of the Beaufort County South...

Yamacraw island. After a failed attempt at applying to the Peace Corps following the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. in 1968, Conroy asks the superintendent of the schools in his hometown,...

It is Mary, the shy thirteen-year-old, who gets hurt during the Halloween field trip to the mainland. Transportation arrangements for the children once they arrive at Bluffton High School do not...

This movie is a Hallmark Hall of Fame movie. This means that it was made for T.V. and therefore was not rated.