Tommy In 'Gryphon' By Charles Baxter

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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,

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