Jacquelyn Howington
Dr. Towles
ENGL 310-001
October 14, 2014
Frindle
Main Characters (with Brief Description) * Nick Allen: the main character of the story. A fifth-grade boy at Lincoln Elementary, who came up with the word “Frindle” to use instead of the word pen with his friends. He gets the entire school to use the word and it becomes a huge epidemic across the globe. * Mrs. Granger: an older lady, whom is Nick’s fifth grade language arts teacher. She has been a teacher for over 35 years and is very stern in her teaching ways. She loves the dictionary and has it on a podium in front of the classroom. When Nick comes up with the word “Frindle” she refuses to use it. We see later though, that she is secretly doing this
…show more content…
Bud asks Nick if he can use his word to make t-shirts with his word on them for profit and agrees to give 50% to Nick. Nick agrees and the word “Frindle” is spread worldwide. Many years later, Nick is in college and receives a package from his 5th grade teacher, Mrs. Granger, with a dictionary and a letter inside. Although she was rough on Nick about his work throughout, she knew in the end his word would be a big success.
Theme (Give Textual Evidence) * The theme in Frindle is the power of words. This is seen from the very beginning of the book when Nick asks Mrs. Granger how words come about. She explains this to Nick, thus giving him his bright idea. When Nick comes up with the word “Frindle” to use instead of the word pen, Mrs. Granger refuses to use to word and make it a thing in the classroom, thus causing turmoil between Nick and Mrs. Granger. After Nick’s word becomes a big deal, Mrs. Granger looks as though she was the villain all through this process and he sees how powerful words really are. In the book we see this when Nick is interviewed by the TV reporter and she asks about Mrs. Granger and he tells only nice things about her. He states, “I mean, I learned a lot about words, and without her I wouldn’t have”. (Clements, 76). When reading this, Nick begins to realize that every word no matter what context is powerful, whether it is
One thing the book talks about is keeping childhood innocence. Mostly through the characters of the story the novel also shows how easily experience can change people and cause them to lose their youthful traits. Dallys rough youth has made him tough and fearsome, and he seems not to care about anything. But Dally has a soft spot too caring for Johnny.
Granger to participate in her language arts. The students attending her class in the past felt that she could make student reflect a speck of dust. Also, while other every language arts teacher in the world enjoyed making children deploy the dictionary, she loved and worshiped it. So, she demanded that students deploy manifold dictionaries fiercely, carry out considerable assignment, take vocabulary testing about 35 words every week.
She was surprised that he was telling his personal story to them, so had a debate about the importance of ‘person’ against Tony. Unlike tony, she strongly took a stance that the literature professor would never should give irrelevant personal anecdote to her students and considered a waste of time to do so. When they were having arguments, Tom Newhouse, professor emeritus, stepped into the Hub Pub. Although Janet did not wanted obnoxious Newhouse to disrupt them, Newhouse did actually recognized her and came up to their table. In the middle of conversation, he brought up James Cox and how he deliberately wrote the paper. However, Janet’s question whether James, who was caught for plagiarism in her class, actually wrote the essay or not, upset Newhouse and made him leave the
When he tried to try out for the school track team, his coach, ______, said that in the student handbook that students who are failing a class cannot join an after-school activity. Instead of asking for extra credit work like coach _____ advised. Furthermore, Philip’s friends were in his homeroom when he was humming. Most of them thought that he was just trying to make a laugh or to irritate Ms. Narwin. But when the story on the newspaper said otherwise, Philip’s friends really begin to think that Philip was trying to irritate Ms. Narwin. Practically everyone in the school likes Ms. Narwin, Phil’s friends are trying to prove her innocence. Finally, near the end of the book, Philip’s first day in the Private school, Philip’s homeroom teacher asked if he would sing the National Anthem, Philip said with tears in his eyes that he doesn’t know the words. When Philip hummed the National Anthem, he told the press and his parents that he was singing instead of humming the
She tries to make them believe that the books they received are “wonderful”. In actuality, the books are dirty and old. Little Man is known as a clean and organized person so he was not happy about getting a book in that shape. Furthermore, he opens the book and sees a list. This list shows the year that the book was given, the condition of the book and the race of the student that the book was given to. For example, in 1992, it said the condition was “new” and the race of the student was “white”. In 1933, the condition of the book was “very poor” and the race of the student was “nigra”. This infuriated Little Man. He throws the book on the floor and stomps on it. In turn, Miss Crocker takes him outside and gives him a whooping.
Overall, Fitzgerald obviously put a great amount of thought in choosing Nick Carraway, and innocent, exclusive, yet completely ever-present character as the narrator of the story. Because of Nick’s circumstance and character,
The two younger boys, Jack Dawkins and Charles Bates were pocket-pickers, who stole handkerchiefs and gave them to Fagin to resell. Bill Sikes, Nancy’s lover, was a violent, abusive, bilious, fastidious, mendacious miscreant who hectored all those
Fridman uses rhetorical questions to develop his argument. In his writing he says "how can a country where typical parents are ashamed of their daughter studying mathematics instead of going dancing, or of their son reading weber while his friends play basketball, be expected to compete in the technology race with Japan or remain leading political and cultural force in Europe?". Using rhetprival questions like the one about strikes the reader and causes them to really think about it. It helps develop the argument because readers we see that this question requires no real answer but bases on everything said prior to this questions, it is shown that the author believes that parents who focus more on their childs extracurriculars instead of their studies
To begin, Gene Forrester, an intelligent boy, and Phineas, nicknamed Finny, face mental and physical changes in their lives due to the looming war. Gene and Finny are pals and roommates, but once the root of jealousy springs in Gene’s heart, he begins to believe that Finny is out to sabotage his grades. Therefore, Gene, in a moment of blindness, pushes Finny out of a tree shattering his leg and leaving him injured for life. For Gene, World War II is a backdrop for the guilt he faces over Finny’s
Holling who thinks miss baker hates hates him is forced to spend each wednesday afternoon alone with miss baker while his classmates, attend church or the temple Holling a presbyterian is instead asked to do chores and read about shakesphere.However mrs baker starts to see that he is a genius. and she begins teaching him shakespeare, Hoodhood begins to understand there is more to the world that he enitailly realized thanks to shakesphere.
Parents always warn their children to steer clear from shady and unreliable characters. Real life situations are the target of this notion, but such a claim also stands true for literature. In F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel The Great Gatsby, Nick, the narrator, is a shady character who disclosed no personal information about himself and expected the viewer’s trust in return. As a result, Scott Donaldson, in his article “The Trouble with Nick” deliberates his opinion over what a terrible person Nick is, however later determines that regardless of how shady Nick may be, he is still the only one fit to narrate The Great Gatsby. Some of Scott Donaldson’s views of Nick as an unreliable narrator may stand true; however, it is definitely agreeable that Nick Carraway is the only acceptable narrator for The Great Gatsby.
Plot summary: Nick Allen is a troublemaker. He likes to live up to things at school and always had plenty of great ideas. It looks like Nick’s days of shenanigans are over, thanks to his no-nonsense teacher, Ms. Granger. That is when Nick starts to learn how words are created. This inspires his greatest plan yet: invent a new word. From now on a pen is no longer a pen, it is a Frindle. Suddenly, Nick’s new word frindle starts spreading around his school now his new word frindle got taken away from him.
Natalie Sterling, a seventeen year old senior at Ross Academy had just won class president and beat her opponent Mike Domski. Mike was the kind of guy that Natalie and her best friend Autumn tried to stay away from. The girls at Ross Academy were known as demeaning and “boy crazy.” One day, during the pep rally a bunch of freshman dressed in trampy clothing and started to dance inappropriately. The leader’s name was Spencer a girl Natalie used to babysit for. The flirty freshman called themselves “Prostitutes” or Ross Academy prostitutes. Not only was Natalie embarrassed and angry by Spencers action but, she was disappointed. When the principal and Ms. Bee the student council head were talking to the girls punishments Natalie barged in. Natalie explained how she wanted to have a lock-in for all the girls in trouble and any others from school who wanted to come, about feminism and women's rights. Ms. Bee and Natalie agreed that it would be a good idea for
“Nicholas Nickleby” begins on a lonely house in the country where Nicholas’s father dies. The Nickleby’s family has no income for survival and must travel to London, where their Uncle Ralph lives, in search of aid for money. They arrive to their Uncle Ralph’s investment home, who deviously helps the Nickleby’s family by sending the son, Nicholas, to a cruel school to teach, and keeping the
His family’s confidence never dwindled; time after time, they joined a crusade to save Richard’s soul. Tensions began to increase when Aunt Addie enrolled Richard in the religious school where she taught. Labeled as a black sheep, Richard continued to defy the iron fist of his family. The conflict between Aunt Addie and Richard exploded when he was accused of eating walnuts in class. Richard knew the boy in front of him was guilty, but he abided by the “street code” and said nothing. Despite Richard’s denial, Aunt Addie did not conduct an investigation and immediately beat Richard in front of the class. After submitting to his aunt, he finally confessed the guilty suspect. Rather than to commend Richard for the truth, Aunt Addie attempted to beat him again after school. However, brandishing a knife, Richard defended himself. He had stood up for his dignity and pride, something that was worth more to him than anything.