In this story “Gryphon” by Charles Baxter, the main character is Tommy. Tommy is a nine year old boy, who is in 4th grade at Five Oaks in Michigan. Mr. Hibler, Tommy’s 4th grade teacher developed a cough and doesn’t come to school the next day.
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.
Tommy defends Miss Ferenczi because he liked her,
“ I liked her, she was strange.” (p. 56, l. 413) Tommy likes Miss Ferenczi because she was different from all the substitutes he had. For instance, he didn’t like Mrs. Mantie “ she’s no mystery.” (p.69, l. 819) because he thought she wasn't fun as Miss Ferenczi was, who is mysterious and interesting. After school, when Tommy takes the bus and goes home Carl Whiteside was sitting next to him. Carl didn’t like Miss Ferenczi and he thought she always made up stories, such as the griffon (an animal half lion and half bird). Tommy makes up a “humster” story to tell Carl so he will believe that Miss Ferenczi is telling the truth, “ this mad scientist in the Swiss Alps, and he’s been putting genes and chromosomes and stuff together in test tubes, and he combined a human being with a hamster. It’s called a humster.” (p. 57, l. 427-431) Tommy made this story up to defend Miss Ferenczi as well as to bring the effect to Carl, who literally believed Tommy’s made up “humster” story. Therefore, one reason that Tommy defends Miss Ferenczi is because when Tommy got stuck on the word “balcony” were Miss Ferenczi defended him by saying, “I don't like that word either. It’s ugly.” (p. 50, l. 245-246).
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.
In the story, “Gryphon,” by Charles Baxter, a boy named Tommy encounters someone who is weird and different. She, Miss Ferenczi, tells of stories that don’t really make sense. She speaks some truth and some false with her strange stories and is really mixed up… just like a gryphon.
The story “Gryphon” by Charles Baxter is about a boy named Tommy who attends Five Oaks Elementary School. His teacher, Mr. Hibler, develops a cough and is absent the next day. The person who takes his place is a woman named Miss Ferenczi. Since Five Oaks is a normal town with substitute teachers that “fluttered, provided easeful class days, and nervously covered material we had mastered weeks earlier,” Tommy thought that Miss Ferenczi was something special. (pg. 43, l. 43-45)She is a strange substitute and Tommy wants to believe everything she says, but other people, like Carl Whiteside (which Tommy observes, has bad breath), don’t believe her. Once Tommy gets home, all he talks about to his mother is Miss Ferenczi, but his mother doesn’t
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