Mark Brinch Analysis

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Mark Kinney, a misled teenager, is one of the many students in Mr. Griffin’s English class. He believes that an A is what is expected, but believes that no one is perfect in his class. The students do not like how difficult of a teacher Mr. Griffin can be and think it is time to teach him a lesson of their own.

Mark gets a very unlikely group of kids together who feel the same about Mr. Griffin, and together they plot the kidnapping of their hated English teacher, Mr. Griffin. They kidnap and leave Mr. Griffin up in the mountains where he dies while he is tied up. After the death of their English teacher the plot does 180 degree spin and the kids lie and doing whatever it takes to cover their tracks of what was supposed to be a harmless joke.

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