The Tuesday Wars Holling Quotes

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“You never really understand a person until you consider things from their point of view. Until you jump in someone else's shoes and walk around in them for a day or two.”-Harper Lee When I think of the overall message from the book The Wednesday Wars by Gary D. Schmidt the word judgment comes to mind. The protagonist Holling Hoodhood has a teacher named Mrs.Baker throughout the story he always says “Mrs.Baker hates my guts.” Towards the end of the book Holling finds out that Mrs.Baker’s husband is fighting in a war. But when Holling gave Mrs.Baker a chance to show who she really is he learned she is not such a bad lady. Holling judged Mrs.Baker to quickly to see what was really going on in her life. What Holling did is just like looking at

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