Chapters 11 and 12 Summary and Analysis

Finally the end of the school arrives and graduation is held on an early June morning in the schoolyard at Yamacraw. Ezra Bennington gives the graduation address and Pat and the children give Zeke Skimberry a book in thanks for the help he provided all year. The next week Pat and Barbara take a few of the children to a camp in Bluffton for swimming lessons and are amazed that children who live surrounded by water do not know how to swim. On Friday of that week Pat receives a call from Howard Sedgwick relieving Pat of his teaching position.

The next day Pat goes to see Dr. Piedmont who tells Pat that Pat has been late too many times the past year and that Pat continues to charge his boat gas to the school system. Pat counters that...