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Written in the style of Mitch Albom's, The Five People You Meet in
Heaven, The School Factory by Christine Adams switches time from
present day, to the past and into the future. The commanding day is
June 10th. The primary storyteller, Jenny Anderson, a loved senior
English teacher. As the story opens, "Mrs. A." is in a head-on
collision on her way to the graduation. In her unconscious state,
she traces the year flashing back to events involving a dozen
students. Their issues include illiteracy, early pregnancy,
learning disabilities, crime, homosexuality, sexual perversion,
racial bias, alcoholism and drug addiction. The conflict - their
"real" human issues versus the "inhumane" school institution. By
symbolically making all kids "products" tracked on different
conveyor belts - in the factory, the author rips open the heart and
soul of Heritage High. Throughout the novel, the conflict between
the human needs of the teens and the rules of the factory builds.
Some kids drop off the conveyor belt; one, Jim Bartlett, chooses
suicide as his way out. In the last thread of the novel, the dying
teacher meets Jim Bartlett. With Jim, now as her teacher, she
experiences a true "TIMELESSNESS." She sees her students in their
future lives. By expanding time, the author is able to help the
teacher and the reader make sense of the incongruity and emptiness
of a typical year in the school factory.
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