In the short story “Gryphon” by Charles Baxter, the main character is Tommy, who is a young boy in fourth grade and goes to Five Oaks, and he defends his interesting, unique substitute teacher, Miss Ferenczi. In the beginning of the story, Tommy’s teacher, Mr.Hibler developed a cough and finally decides that he is too sick to carry on.
The next day, a strange woman walks into class, “carrying a purple purse, a checkerboard lunchbox, and some books (p. 43, l. 45) She had “her light hair in a chignon and was wearing gold-rimmed glasses” (p. 44, l. 71) She introduced herself as Miss Ferenczi, their substitute teacher, and carried on with the day.
Tommy could have defended her for a lot of reasons. The main reason is because she is unique, and …show more content…
47, l. Miss Ferenczi said it was good. When someone tried to prove her wrong, she said that “in higher mathematics, six times eleven can be considered sixty-eight.” (p. 48, l. 180) That is also a way that she relates to Tommy. Tommy doesn’t like to be proven wrong, so he may make up a story to cover it …show more content…
When Tommy was riding home on the bus, he argued with Carl Whiteside about Miss Ferenczi. Carl kept saying that she was lying about everything about the Gryphon and “higher mathematics”, and Tommy kept defending her saying that it was possible. That was when Tommy decided to make up a story to cover up the truth. He told Carl stubbornly that “a mad scientist named Dr. Frankenbush was in the Swiss Alps, putting together genes and chromosomes and combined a man and a hamster; a humster.” (p. 57, l. 425-432)
Tommy is also stubborn with what he thinks is true. On Miss Ferenczi’s third day, she brought a tarot pack to tell students’ fortunes. She told seven other fortunes and then came to Wayne Razmer. She told him that his future was not so good and that he would die soon. Wayne was so scared that he decided to tell the principal, and the principal fired Miss Ferenczi. Tommy was angry at the happy look on Wayne’s face when he came out of the office and fought him, throwing punches and screaming that she was always right and that Wayne was just
The next day, a strange woman walks into class, “carrying a purple purse, a checkerboard lunchbox, and some books (p. 43, l. 45) She had “her light hair in a chignon and was wearing gold-rimmed glasses” (p. 44, l. 71) She introduced herself as Miss Ferenczi, their substitute teacher, and carried on with the day.
Tommy could have defended her for a lot of reasons. The main reason is because she is unique, and …show more content…
47, l. Miss Ferenczi said it was good. When someone tried to prove her wrong, she said that “in higher mathematics, six times eleven can be considered sixty-eight.” (p. 48, l. 180) That is also a way that she relates to Tommy. Tommy doesn’t like to be proven wrong, so he may make up a story to cover it …show more content…
When Tommy was riding home on the bus, he argued with Carl Whiteside about Miss Ferenczi. Carl kept saying that she was lying about everything about the Gryphon and “higher mathematics”, and Tommy kept defending her saying that it was possible. That was when Tommy decided to make up a story to cover up the truth. He told Carl stubbornly that “a mad scientist named Dr. Frankenbush was in the Swiss Alps, putting together genes and chromosomes and combined a man and a hamster; a humster.” (p. 57, l. 425-432)
Tommy is also stubborn with what he thinks is true. On Miss Ferenczi’s third day, she brought a tarot pack to tell students’ fortunes. She told seven other fortunes and then came to Wayne Razmer. She told him that his future was not so good and that he would die soon. Wayne was so scared that he decided to tell the principal, and the principal fired Miss Ferenczi. Tommy was angry at the happy look on Wayne’s face when he came out of the office and fought him, throwing punches and screaming that she was always right and that Wayne was just