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6034 WEDNESDAY WARS JANUARY
“When you care for someone more than they deserve, you get hurt more than you deserve.” In novel The Wednesday Wars by Gary D. Schmidt, the protagonist Holling HoodHood, suffers through a very embarrassing experience at the beginning of the chapter. As he enters the doors of his school, he notices that lots of people are smiling at him. The reason he was getting smiled at was that there were embarrassing pictures everywhere of him wearing yellow tights hung up around the school. Holling faces a school full of smiles once again at the end of the chapter. This time however, the smiles were not a source of embarrassment, but rather a source of pride for Holling. This time the smiles were because he had saved his

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