Lois Duncan's Killing Mr. Griffin

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The accident There are times where kid’s in school get angry with their grades. Sometimes, they blame it on themselves, the teacher, or the class itself. In Killing Mr.Griffin by Lois Duncan, a group of teenagers are not happy with the way Mr.Griffin is towards the class. They meant to kidnap Mr. Griffin just to spook him but, it ended with him dying due to his heart condition. Mr. Griffin is a strict teacher who has no exceptions, but, truly does care about his own students, Lois Duncan descriptions of the kid’s anger aren’t exactly realistic Student’s do get mad and do say words they don’t really mean but, most of the time they would never go out and intentionally harm the teacher. “As for those who have no paper to turn in, you may consider your grade F for this assignment (14.) Jeff Garrett was outraged. Jeff’s anger was the driving force behind the plan of kidnapping Mr. Griffin. It gave Mark Kinney, a mysterious, cool-calming character, a chance to jump on this plan. “Well. why don’t we then (17)?” Jeff know’s Mark is joking about the murder, not the kidnapping though. Students would never plan on kidnapping a teacher like Jeff and his group of friends did. …show more content…
‘Please Mr.G., let me back into your class. I’ll be a good boy. I won’t cheat again.’ And then he wouldn’t do it. ‘Next semester,’ he said. ‘Next semester you can take it over again.’ He had me where he wanted me, didn’t he? (86) Mark had so much hate towards Mr. Griffin. He had made Mark beg in front of the whole class in order to let him back in the class. Mark wanted Mr. Griffin to beg to be let go like he had to beg to be let back into the class. “Look, if we let him go now, he’s won (86).” This isn’t realistic because, no student would think their teacher deserved it. No student would kidnap their teacher, make them beg, and if they didn’t, leave them until they

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