Wednesday Wars
It is important to have people in your life who you can rely on, look up to as mentors and help you develop as a person. In Gary.D Schmidt’s novel “The Wednesday Wars”, Holling Hoodhood is a seventh-grade student attending Camilla Junior High in Long Island during The Vietnam War. Holling has to stay in every Wednesday afternoon with the teacher who “hates [Holling’s] guts”(Schmidt 7), Mrs.Baker, but throughout the novel, Holling and Mrs.Baker develop a strong relationship and Mrs.Baker becomes one of Holling’s mentors. Holling has a family who might seem perfect but really has many secrets and issues as well as many imperfections. With all the difficulties in Holling’s life, Holling always has his amazing friends who keep him sane and are cream puffs there for him no matter what. Holling matures into a …show more content…
Holling read The Merchant of Venice, the Tempest, Macbeth, Romeo and Juliet, Julius Caesar, and Hamlet. He related a lot to the protagonists and learnt valuable lessons from reading Shakespeare. During November when Holling read “The Tempest” he learnt that the quality of mercy is not strained and that mercy is shown by choice. “ ‘Thank you for the creampuffs’ I said. ‘The quality of mercy is not strained.’ she said” (Schmidt 71). Holling promised to buy 24 creampuffs for his class because his friends thought that he had one for himself and didn't believe him when he said that he didn't so, Holling’s friends got upset and gave him death threats until he gave them and their class creampuffs. It wasn't very easy for Holling to buy 24 creampuffs because he didn't have a lot of money at the time and his father refused to raise his allowance. Holling needed someway to buy cream puffs so he made a deal with and Mr.Goldman. the owner of Goldman's Best Bakery. If Holling played Ariel in The Tempest he would get the cream puffs. Lucky, Holling already read the play and enjoyed it so he gladly accepted the offer. When Holling received his
It is important to have people in your life who you can rely on, look up to as mentors and help you develop as a person. In Gary.D Schmidt’s novel “The Wednesday Wars”, Holling Hoodhood is a seventh-grade student attending Camilla Junior High in Long Island during The Vietnam War. Holling has to stay in every Wednesday afternoon with the teacher who “hates [Holling’s] guts”(Schmidt 7), Mrs.Baker, but throughout the novel, Holling and Mrs.Baker develop a strong relationship and Mrs.Baker becomes one of Holling’s mentors. Holling has a family who might seem perfect but really has many secrets and issues as well as many imperfections. With all the difficulties in Holling’s life, Holling always has his amazing friends who keep him sane and are cream puffs there for him no matter what. Holling matures into a …show more content…
Holling read The Merchant of Venice, the Tempest, Macbeth, Romeo and Juliet, Julius Caesar, and Hamlet. He related a lot to the protagonists and learnt valuable lessons from reading Shakespeare. During November when Holling read “The Tempest” he learnt that the quality of mercy is not strained and that mercy is shown by choice. “ ‘Thank you for the creampuffs’ I said. ‘The quality of mercy is not strained.’ she said” (Schmidt 71). Holling promised to buy 24 creampuffs for his class because his friends thought that he had one for himself and didn't believe him when he said that he didn't so, Holling’s friends got upset and gave him death threats until he gave them and their class creampuffs. It wasn't very easy for Holling to buy 24 creampuffs because he didn't have a lot of money at the time and his father refused to raise his allowance. Holling needed someway to buy cream puffs so he made a deal with and Mr.Goldman. the owner of Goldman's Best Bakery. If Holling played Ariel in The Tempest he would get the cream puffs. Lucky, Holling already read the play and enjoyed it so he gladly accepted the offer. When Holling received his