Character Analysis Of Holling Hoodhood In 'The Wednesday Wars'

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Have you ever felt bad about something so you went back and changed it? In “The Wednesday Wars” by Gary D Schmidt the main character Holling Hoodhood was reading Romeo and Juliet. When Holling finished the book he thought it was stupid because they both commit suicide because they were madly in love with each other. But they were from two families who hated each other so they couldn’t get married but they did anyway. After that part in the book it was pretty much boring for Holling. For some reason Holling asked Mai Thai out but he realized he didn’t have enough money to go anywhere and Mrs.Bigio found out and gave them tickets to go to the Romeo and Juliet play. After the play they went to Woolworths to have some dinner and Holling accidentally

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