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"Gervase Phinn is a schools inspector in the Yorkshire Dales, England. He recounts his experiences with tremendous humour and dry delivery. The pupils are laconic, loquacious, brassy, tough, sensitive, bored, enthusiastic, and lovable in equal proportions. The teachers are much the same, with added eccentricity and sense of responsibility. One of the teachers tells stories with a cardboard box on his head - after all, he has to compete with the TV these days. The Religous Education teacher who makes the bible come alive as he tells the stories has a mug for his tea with the slogan 'Sticks and stones may break my bones, but whips and chains excite me', on it. One six year old has a persistent and burning desire to know how to spell 'sex'...as in 'in-sects'. One lad hates everyone, adults always let him down, but eventually turns the corner and wins the poetry reading competition with the Yorkshire poem of true grit: 'Play Cricket'. This book will appeal to parents and teachers everywhere."
Michael JR Jose, Resident Scholar
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Ratings are on a 1-10 scale (Low to High)
Plot
Kids growing up/acting up?
Yes
Kids:
- trouble in high school
job/profession:
- teacher
Job/profession/poverty story
Yes
Period of greatest activity?
- 1950+
Subject of Biography
Gender
- Male
Profession/status:
- teacher/professor
Age:
- 40's-50's
Ethnicity
- White
Nationality
- British
How sensitive is this person?
- sensitive to others' feelings
Sense of humor
- Strong but gentle sense of humor
Intelligence
- Smarter than most other people
Setting
How much descriptions of surroundings?
- 2 (a little)
Europe
Yes
European country:
- England/UK
Century:
- 1980's-Present
Style
Person
- mostly 1st
Accounts of torture and death?
- no torture/death
Book makes you feel?
- encouraged
Is book humorous?
Yes
If humorous, kind of humor
- puns
- eccentric personalities
- Dry-cynical
- slapstick
- sarcastic/sardonic
- gentle
Commentary on society?
Yes
Commentary on
- decency
Writer's slant towards subject:
- very favorable
Story of entire life, or part?
- story of set of events during life
Is this a biography of several people?
Yes
Autobiography?
Yes
How much dialogue in bio?
- significantly more dialog than descript
How much is philosophy rather than life story?
- 0-25% of book
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