The Significance of the Gryphon
In Charles Baxter’s “Gryphon”, a substitute teacher named miss Ferenczi told the tale of her seeing a “Gryphon” influencing the idea of imagination and knowing of interesting facts (597). Characterizing miss Ferenczi herself as a unique person the children get exposed too. Different from what the norm is in an education system.
Being new to a community where the children were used to mothers and college graduates being there substitute having an unfamiliar face in the class already drew their minds to curiosity (592-593). Miss Ferenczi at the beginning starts off by telling the children an opening story about herself before getting into actual work that was left for the students to work on while their teacher …show more content…
From transitioning from recess back to the classroom, the moment Miss Ferenczi characteristics appear to the students more in depth from her teaching methods or appearance at first. Taking a different direction in which Mr. Hibler would have taken the discussion. Starting with pyramids being the guide of cosmic energy to a concentrated point, George Washington even having Egyptian blood, souls after death in Egyptian religion, then talked about a monster called the Gryphon which is a very significance to imagination, fact and who Miss Ferenczi is as a character (597). The Gryphon a mythical creature associated with the Egyptian culture, a tale that Miss Ferenczi claims said when she “…traveled to the outskirts of Cairo” (597). To this story about spotting a Gryphon could be believable if the creature was a type of dog, but this creature is said to be half bird and half lion making it hard to believe that she had spotted one. After class the children had thought this new substitute teacher was lying about what she had said, not all the class thought …show more content…
Miss Ferenczi is like the Gryphon; a mystic being that is hardly understood. Hardly understood by being apart of a world that most people call normal and the other half in which others call make believe or not apart of this world. The Gryphon being a ancient being in the Egyptian times is something that was apart of their world the way it was viewed in their eyes. For Miss Ferenczi she is more on the imaginative side to where she expresses the idea of it being okay to believe in things that others might not believe in. Giving the possibilities of going out and not just knowing true facts but more of interesting facts that may not be
In Charles Baxter’s “Gryphon”, a substitute teacher named miss Ferenczi told the tale of her seeing a “Gryphon” influencing the idea of imagination and knowing of interesting facts (597). Characterizing miss Ferenczi herself as a unique person the children get exposed too. Different from what the norm is in an education system.
Being new to a community where the children were used to mothers and college graduates being there substitute having an unfamiliar face in the class already drew their minds to curiosity (592-593). Miss Ferenczi at the beginning starts off by telling the children an opening story about herself before getting into actual work that was left for the students to work on while their teacher …show more content…
From transitioning from recess back to the classroom, the moment Miss Ferenczi characteristics appear to the students more in depth from her teaching methods or appearance at first. Taking a different direction in which Mr. Hibler would have taken the discussion. Starting with pyramids being the guide of cosmic energy to a concentrated point, George Washington even having Egyptian blood, souls after death in Egyptian religion, then talked about a monster called the Gryphon which is a very significance to imagination, fact and who Miss Ferenczi is as a character (597). The Gryphon a mythical creature associated with the Egyptian culture, a tale that Miss Ferenczi claims said when she “…traveled to the outskirts of Cairo” (597). To this story about spotting a Gryphon could be believable if the creature was a type of dog, but this creature is said to be half bird and half lion making it hard to believe that she had spotted one. After class the children had thought this new substitute teacher was lying about what she had said, not all the class thought …show more content…
Miss Ferenczi is like the Gryphon; a mystic being that is hardly understood. Hardly understood by being apart of a world that most people call normal and the other half in which others call make believe or not apart of this world. The Gryphon being a ancient being in the Egyptian times is something that was apart of their world the way it was viewed in their eyes. For Miss Ferenczi she is more on the imaginative side to where she expresses the idea of it being okay to believe in things that others might not believe in. Giving the possibilities of going out and not just knowing true facts but more of interesting facts that may not be