Monday, January 25, 2016

Teacher: A Gift of Flight




In Bud Rudesill's TEACHER, Roland Brun aspires to be a teacher but karma leads him to invention and design engineering instead. Karma works a different sort of magic when twelve-year-old Jamie Richie, a math genius and social misfit, is chased into his shop by bullies. She becomes his dream student and he, the inspiration she needs to fly.

Thinking back on TEACHER, Bud Rudesill pondered the amount of conflict the story contained. Roland and Jamie’s conflicts center on the way Roland helps Jamie design and build an airplane. The story seems fantastic or maybe even unbelievable, but it’s fiction. Last week, however, Rudesill discovered Sabrina Gonzalez Paterski, a real-life teenager who built a plane from scratch for her father. Now, TEACHER doesn’t seem as implausible.

By contrast to Sabrina Paterski, Jamie Richie has antagonists. They aren’t people so much as a political system, a learning disability, a social disp
erception, and other less common conflicts. Jamie is more like Temple Grandlin who was diagnosed with autism as a child and had to overcome mental quirks to prove her genius.


Sabrina Gonzalez Pasterski and the plane she built for her father. 


Watch her progress:





Young Eagles Report: 


Total Young Eagles Flown: 1,967,255


TEACHER is a comprehensive read, written by a person with a social disperception of his own, that will leave you gripped with harrowing emotion. 

4 comments:

  1. How interesting. I enjoy watching the young girl build her dad a plane. What would it be like to be soooooo smart??????

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  2. I look forward to reading this! Ok.. I want to know how two writers can live in the same house and write! Hmmm a February blog post maybe.. I know nosy reader...

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  3. Thank you for sharing this

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  4. You're welcome, Martin! Thank you for reading! Measn a lot!

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