Short Story 'Gryphon' By Charles Baxter

Susan's problems with her eighth grade students comes from her lack of confidence. She seems to feel like she needs to be a similar teacher as Mr. K, since he was so well liked by the students, when in reality I thinks she must find her own teaching style that suits and comforts her but also is comforting in relationship building with her new students.

When I was in the eighth grade, I had two very contrasting instructors. One instructor was remarkably entertaining, but the other instructor was truly ordinary and tedious. The teacher who was engaging taught mathematics, and the stale teacher taught me literature. The both of them taught my two favorite subjects at the time; however, as the school year went on, my interest in literature declined and my interest in mathematics rose to a special high. The literature teacher taught like every traditional teacher. This instructor’s class had the same routine everyday. The class consisted of taking turns reading out loud and at the end of class, the teacher would stand by the door and hand out the homework for that night, which was over what we read in class. No one looked forward to going to that particular class because it was the same lifeless routine everyday; however, my mathematic teacher was an unpredictable person. He transformed work problems into little games. His teaching tactic goes as follows: he would spend the first half of our hour long class lecturing, then he spent the last half of class constructing work problems on the board with random, absurd work problems. If you got a question right, he gave you the option of either shooting a ball of notebook paper into a basket or throw to the same ball of paper at a bullseye target that was poorly drawn on the board. The trick was either you can receive a piece of candy

The first explanation to question to why Tommy likes Mrs. F is that on page (57, line 430 to 431) it talks about how Tommy was telling Carl Whiteside, the boy who has bad breath and collect lots of marbles in a jar about a fake combination to make it sound real so he convinced him that it's possible . “ and he combined a human being and a hamster.’’ “ it's called a humster.” Next explanation, on (pg.50, l. 445) Mrs. F tells tommy whispered over his shoulder telling the word balcony. “ I don't like that either, It’s ugly my feeling is if you don't like a word don’t use it.” She was telling

In “Gryphon” by Charles Baxter, a class of fourth grade students gets a substitute teacher. She is very eccentric but knowledgeable and tells the whole class a lot of myths and facts. It is up to the class to decide what is true or not.

Why does Tommy defense Ms. Ferenczi During the story “Gryphon” by Charles Baxter, Tommy defense Ms.Franczi almost in every page, but the question is why. Tommy defense Ms. Franczi because he like her, because they think almost alike for example when Tommy sees a tree that he hadn't seen before and he just notice on the exact same day when Ms. Franczi draws “A large, leafy, deciduous… oak.” (P. 44, L. 70)

One of the first memory moments is about him and his dad practicing at the park. They then were talking about football and then Tommy’s father said “Everyone wanted to play offence…” He was talking about how all of his friends and pretty much everyone else who wants to play offence instead of defence. But Tommy and his dad play defence I feel like that brings a connection from Tommy’s dad to Tommy. It adds a person vs. person conflict. Tommy is sad since, he and his father won't have that connection ever again because he is gone.

Tommy and his mates are in a critical part of their lives. They are growing up and if they can’t find imagination now, they’ve likely lost

Tom’s infidelity in his marriage clearly expresses his views about his wife, Daisy. In seeking an affair, he conveys that Daisy is deficient and not worthy of devotion. Daisy knows of his affairs, but because of the time period and their social class, she is helpless to do anything. As a woman in the 20th century, it would destroy Daisy to divorce Tom, even though the entirety of New York knows about Tom’s affair.

And he doesn’t let her look out the window. And he doesn’t like her friends, so nobody gets to visit her unless he is working” (101). Sally is convincing herself that these actions are okay, or maybe even normal because she wants to be with him. Both of these quotes have the same feeling of hopelessness. Cisneros thinks that the abuse is wrong, but it is what it is.

my one chance to be a man and bring home the money the telegram boy

This part of the story also makes a connection between Tommy and Plinio which that is that they both felt as if there dignity was humiliated in front of Mavis and they tried to out do each other but it all got out of hand causing them both to loose all of the respect that they had. For example Tommy's friends all left and Mavis was bewildered at Plinio.

Furthermore, Miss Ferenczi’s character commences to show signs of change as the story carries on. Initially, Miss Ferenczi is introduced as a unique substitute teacher compared to other teacher’s in Five Oaks Michigan due to her distinct appearance and deficient amounts of substitutes available. As Miss Ferenczi’s initiate’s class, she does not partake in anything unusual as stated by Tommy,

Ferenczi. This quote was thought when Tommy looked out the window to see the same Five Oaks that didn’t have anything new and exciting. “I knew every barn, every broken windmill, every fence, every anhydrous ammonia tank, by heart.” (p. 63 l. 608, 609) Since Tommy knows everything in Five Oaks, he is drawn to things new like Ms. Ferenczi. This next quote just describes one of the teachers in Five Oaks. “She was no mystery.” (p. 69 l. 818, 819) That quote just says that Five Oaks is one of those places where everybody knows everybody. The boring Five Oaks make Tommy hunger for something that is new and exciting like Ms.

For my observation, I observed a first to third grade special day class at a public Fresno Unified School District classroom in Fresno, California. When I first entered the classroom all the students, approximately 10 students, were sitting down on the rug in front of the class as the teacher was reading a short story to them. When she finished they would go over their reading assignment.

The father teaches tommy how to hunt, track animals and be a part of Mother Nature. And Tommy really tries his hardest! We can see that in this scene at line 7 page 40: “and sometimes when he turned real quick, he would see a pride in Pa’s eyes” Out of this reaction we can see how much pride means for Tommy. He wants his father to brag about him to the other men in the Hut. Therefor Tommy practises a lot.