Imagine losing a job you have had for 20 years all because of a ninth grade student who was creating a disturbance in your class and told a bunch of lies. In the book, Nothing but the Truth, Philip Malloy is a ninth grade student at Harrison High School. During morning announcements the national anthem is played and Philip hummed along with it even though they are supposed to stand in a respectful silence. After he did it the second and third times he was sent to the office by his homeroom teacher, Miss Narwin, and suspended for causing a disturbance. When he told reporters what happened the word got out quickly. In the end miss Narwin got fired in an attempt to save the school budget and Philip moved to a new school. Philip Malloy is to blame …show more content…
When Philip is doing his homework during the national anthem Mr. Lunser states, “Is that yesterday's homework or today's your working on?”(page 7) Philip Malloy doesn't even take off 30 seconds of his homework to honor the National Anthem. This is verbal Irony because he claims that he is patriotic yet before Miss Narwin class he didn't even stand up or listen to the National Anthem when it was played. This quote also means that him humming along to the NA in Miss Narwins class was a new thing and it was not a habit that he does because he is patriotic. Philip wrote in his diary, “I can’t even stand looking at her. I Have to find a way to get transferred out.”(page 31) This means that he was trying to create a disturbance so that Miss Narwin would want him out of his class. This creates one of the main character vs character conflicts in the book. This quote also proves that he was just doing it because he hates Miss Narwin and not because he is patriotic. This makes Miss Narwin the antagonist in the character vs character conflict with …show more content…
This caused the situation to get out of hand and created the main conflict in the book. Mr.Lunser asked Phillip when the Star Spangled Banner was being played, “You want to sing?” and he responded, “No” (page 150). This proves that he was lying because he said to Miss Narwin, “I was being patriotic.” (page 60). If you only hum the star spangled banner during a class with a teacher you can't stand and nowhere else than you are not patriotic. This shows that he became a dynamic character after he got what he wanted. Philip stated, “I don't know the words.” (page 177). This proved that he was lying because he told his parents that Miss narwin would not let him sing the national anthem. Then, they called reporters and made the news get out which caused a lot of character vs character conflict. He also lied to reporters that he likes to sing along, but we know this is not true because he doesn't know the words so he can't sing along. This makes him a static character because he did not change his ways of
On page 83 Philip say “ she really hates me. Philip thinks that the only reason he got suspended was since she has it out for him. On page 73 ” Something between you and Miss Narwin Philip only hummed since Miss Narwin giving him an awful grade. On page 60” Philip leaven this room instantly”Philip has really annoyed her to a point of breaking she was yelling at him over how he was talking back to her. 212 Philip says “I don't know the words” When Philip says I don’t know the words you know that he was only doing it for the reason of the teacher.
5. When Philip is invited back to Lunser's homeroom, he is very shy about singing the anthem. He refuses, and makes the reader realize that Philip found out that not everyone, including Alison, do not like what he did.
“ Knowing how the men in the water died is not the same thing as knowing why they died .“ A quote from Pete Nelson. This means that the causes of the men’s deaths may not pertain to the actual reasons the men died. Some of the men may have simply died for their country rather than the harsh things that caused them to die, such as starvation.
Bayard Sartoris’s defining moment is when he strides into Redmond’s room wielding nothing despite being confronted with a gun, a testament to his refusal to kill and consequently, his maturity. This cool-headed moment of empty-handed triumph shows that the true victor of Bayard and Redmond’s struggle was the former. This bold action was a far cry from Bayard’s previous notable acts, whether committed in a youthful fervor or a spiteful rage. Though Bayard had previously shown that he was capable of killing another after ending the life of Grumby, he shows that he has grown since then, and even when his lifelong role model is stolen away from existence.
Rebecca has a fight with Sam Keating. It brings him to hit Sam’s head with a trophy and to get involved in a murder case of Sam.
Once, a very wise anonymous Tumblr user said “Never be fooled by what you see on the outside, because what’s on the inside is a different story” We often forget people we meet in our daily lives have lives and different circumstances than us and that leads to the mistreatment of others. In The Truth About Sharks by Joan Bauer, this is shown between two characters, Beth and Madge P. Groton. This mistreatment changes Beth throughout the story, making her a dynamic character. At the beginning of the story, Beth was quite lazy and irritable, and had to go to her Uncle's birthday party. She needed to go get new pants for the party. She leaves to go to the mall, not caring to dress up at all. As she enters the store, she is eye’d down by the security guard, Madge P. Groton. Madge glared at her with suspicion because of how Beth looked. Beth goes and tries on pairs of pants before going to look some more, leaving on the pants from the store and all her belongings in the changing room. Beth is grabbed by Madge P. Groton and is falsely arrested for shoplifting the pants she had on. Madge used her power against to try to get Beth to take off the “stolen” pants, in which Beth refused to do so. Madge then calls the police to take Beth in, and starts to tell Beth how she’s seen kids like her, stereotyping her by how she looks. Before long, an officer is brought in and takes Beth back to his car. Beth then convinces him that if they go back in, she can prove her innocence. They go back in and to the salesperson
“It is to these intangible goods that we in the medical profession must bow our heads, for these are goods that often escape our notice, focused as we are on things measurable, things we can get our hands on.” I believe this quote is a great example of why the medical model is flawed. Medical professionals and scientist focus on the numbers, the predictions, and the genetic probabilities, that they attempt to quantize quality of life, and predict it, based on prior examples of the people of the past that have suffered, because medical professionals failed to give them the opportunity to achieve what they view as a quality life. Medical professionals must realize that they cannot quantify quality
In the book “Nothing But the Truth”, a young adult fiction novel written by Avi. In “Nothing But the Truth”, Philip Malloy, the main character, begins humming during the morning announcements when the National Anthem was played. Everyone thought that he was trying to create a disturbance but Philip said that he was trying to be Patriotic. A few days later, he got suspended. Philip’s story was heard from all over the country several days later. All of Philip’s friends and teachers are trying to prove him wrong and the country thanking him for something he lied about. So to avoid the mess, Philip switched to a private school. But when the Nation Anthem played there, a teacher asked him to sing but Philip said that he doesn’t know the words. Throughout the entire book, Philip was treated fairly for many reasons. First, for how Philip was
1 In the play Romeo and Juliet, William Shakespeare puts a lot of emphasis on the theme of fate. Specifically tragic fate. Friar Lawrence is a secondary character in the play that is a key factor in the tragic ending. Friar Lawrence is respected character in the play. Without Friar Lawrence, Juliet would never have thought to stage her own death.
If this case were taken to court, the school board would win because Philip was being disrespectful to Ms. Narwin. (Avi Pg. 30) “Whatever you say.” Philip was talking back to Miss Narwin and be disrespectful. (Avi Pg. 60) “Philip, stop this insolence!” Ms. Narwin said to Philip when he didn’t stop singing like she asked him to. (Avi Pg. 72) “Philip Malloy, you will leave this room immediately! Report to the principal’s office, “ Narwin told Philip after he wouldn’t stop singing the national anthem.
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In the book, Philip is humming the National Anthem in class during the announcements, when his teacher, Miss Narwin, kindly asks him to stop. However, he keeps on humming, until eventually, Miss Narwin tells him to go to the office. The next day had the same outcome. Supposedly, there is a rule at their school that basically says that you have to stand in respectful silence during the Anthem, but Philip claims he doesn’t know it. So, he spreads a rumor (That eventually goes nation-wide) that Miss Narwin forced him to stop acting patriotic. “Philip Malloy: She won’t let me sing “The Star-Spangled Banner… In school. This morning, I was singing “The Star- Spangled Banner.” The teacher kicked me out.” First off, Philip states that he was “singing”, not humming, the Star-Spangled Banner. That is a lie right there. But since he keeps saying that was singing it, not humming it, it builds on the rumor and helps Philip work toward his goal getting Narwin off of his back. Second, when he says, “The teacher kicked me out.”, it sounds like she kicked him out right away, and didn’t give him another chance. He twists the wording in favor of him. Philip believed that, by making a partially false rumor, he would succeed in getting Narwin in trouble. He won, but since Narwin got negativity nation-wide,
This is a conflict in the story because later in the book Phillip has to survive on a little cay with a black man. Since Phillip was prejudice against blacks many issues occurred between Phillip and Timothy. Phillip, for example, does not treat Timothy the same at the beginning of the book and this causes him to say very negative things about Timothy. When they were on the cay they had no time to argue but they still did. Phillip caused Timothy to get mad and he even got Timothy so mad one time that he slapped Timothy. “‘You’re stupid, you can’t even spell.’ Timothy’s heavy hand struck my hand sharply.” (Taylor, 71). In this quote, it shows you one of the issues that occurred because of Phillip negatively talking about Timothy. Phillip does not show respect, so Timothy wanted to show him a lesson. After Phillip was living on the island for many days he soon realized that it doesn't matter what skin color Timothy had. Overall him being prejudice is one of the few conflicts that were solved in The
I do know Cecily Lingard very well, that widow isn’t someone that can trust, she act like if someone is against her and she doesn’t do her job but hired other to work for her and she profit from them. She seems evil, and I am sure she is responsible for everything that is happing in our village. She might have committed those magical actions. Even though, she has good relationship with her tenant, I am pretty sure is evil. She might be responsible of the illness of that child because the way she acts is not trustable. I rarely see her at church for the worships, so I really doesn’t think she is a good
The students all took a practice test and only thirty-three percent of the students have passed and the states minimum average is seventy-five percent. Throughout the school year, the students work effortlessly with Mr. Clark along with their school teachers prepare for the real test. Mr. Clark’s crazy and wild antics start to get to the students and they begin to respect him even more for it. They begin to see that he is only doing this with all of their best interests in mind. One of the students who was expelled’s mother complained about the way Mr. Clark ran things at his school and got the mayor involved. After Mr. Clark is found with the chains on the door, which is illegal and a fire safety hazard, and was arrested. All of the students came down to the Board of Education in Paterson and basically protested and ranted on how they wanted Mr. Clark to be released and return to his duties as principal. Eastside High’s assistant principal Mrs. Barrett claims that Mr. Clark was not the right choice to serve as principal of Eastside. But the students all say in rebuttal how Mr. Clark cares for them like no other and how he has done so much good for them that they will not accept anyone besides Mr. Clark. Soon after, Mr. Clark was released and good news was received. More than enough students