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Philip Malloy Quotes

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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

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