summary of lesson my struggle of an education
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One day in the coal mine, Washington overheard two men talking about a school for black Americans in Virginia. Washington crept toward them through the darkness to hear more clearly, and was delighted to discover that the school catered to poor black folks as well, both by equipping students with a job to pay off their room and board and by teaching all students a trade. Washington heard that the name of this school was the Hampton Institute, and at that moment in the coal mine he resolved to attend that school no matter what obstacles faced him.
Like his time in the salt mine, Washington construes his time in the coal mine as difficult, but not without opportunity. After all, the coal mine provided him an opportunity to hear about the Hampton Institute, which he is now determined to attend. He also foreshadows some of the struggles that will come in his journey to get an education at Hampton, and he sets up another plot construction of problem-struggle-success.
Washington continued to work in the mine for a few months longer, but soon he heard of a position as a house servant that opened up in the home of General Lewis Ruffner, the owner of the mine. The job was to assist Mrs. Viola Ruffner, the General’s wife, in attending to the house. Mrs. Ruffner had a reputation among servants for being particularly strict and severe, so when Washington initially took the job, he was quite afraid of her particularity. However, he quickly realized that she simply preferred to keep a systematically run, clean home, something that he respected.
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