In the story “Gryphon” by Charles Baxter, a boy named Tommy, who is the main character, attends Five Oaks Elementary School in Five Oaks, Michigan. Tommy’s regular teacher, Mr. Hibler, started to cough badly, so the next day, a substitute teacher named Ms. Ferenczi comes to his class. She is strange and mysterious person, with marionette lines on her face(pg.44, l. 81-85). She sometimes goes off task and starts telling intriguing stories about random topics.
Ms. Ferenzci is an odd person, because she sits with Tommy’s class instead of sitting with other teachers, and ate unusual food. She said during math class that six times eleven is sixty eight.(pg.47, l.158-176.)
Tommy defends Ms. Ferenczi because he likes her and enjoys listening to her stories. He said, “Oh yeah? I had liked her.”(pg. 56, l.413) Tommy wants to believe her and wants other people to believe her too. Tommy also looks up the word gryphon and what she said about diamonds. He is also different because he savors the imminent weirdness unlike other kids.
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Ferenczi changes Tommy’s behavior. Tommy is starting to get more and more agressive. For example, Tommy says he saw a tree he’s never seen before, but then gets cut off by Carl who says he sounds like a jerk. On the bus ride home, Carl said that he didn’t believe Ms. Ferenzci. To defend Ms. Ferenzci, Tommy made up a story about a man and a hamster combined together called a humster which did convince Carl that Ms. Ferenczi was right. When Ms. Ferenzci becomes their substitute teacher again in Decemeber, she brings a “treat”, which is a tarot pack. She tells everyone’s fortunes, and then it is Wayne Razmer’s turn. She says his fortune is that he is going to die soon. (pg. 67-68, l.765-777)Wayne gets really mad and tells what Ms. Ferenczi did to the principal. Wayne gets Ms. Ferenzci fired and Tommy gets really mad. At lunchtime, Tommy goes to Wayne and starts a fist fight(pg.69,
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In the story, ”Gryphon,” by Charles Baxter, Tommy, a boy in the story, had sometimes defended Miss Ferenczi. I think Tommy defends Miss Ferenczi because he had interest in her and wanted to know about her more as a teacher. Miss Ferenczi told the students that she had seen an animal has its body half bird and half lion. While Tommy was going home on the bus, on line 413, Tommy said “She was strange.”. I think this has a part that meant Tommy started to have interest in her as a teacher because he felt something different from other teachers.
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The next day, Tommy’s class had a substitute named Miss Ferenczi. Miss Ferenczi is a strange, mysterious, talkative teacher who looked like marionette. She always made up stories that were partially true or that were not true at all, made up. She was a new substitute at Five Oaks, according to Tommy because Five Oaks is an ordinary country where he always saw the same things everyday, but he never saw a strange substitute before like Miss Ferenczi.
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