Gryphon Short Story

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In the short story “Gryphon” we are able to experience the events that take place through the eyes of a boy named Tommy, the protagonist. Tommy’s life comes off as a monotonous, hamster-wheel routine in which everything is perfectly in place. His mother is even compared to Betty Crocker, who is a basic symbol for perfect homemaking. Even what Tommy classifies as a “bad person” is symbolized in Carol Peterson’s actions when she decides to use sheet of notebook paper to blow her nose! To Tommy, life has been kind, wholesome, sweet, and for the most part boring. That is until one day when things are shaken up by a substitute teacher, Miss Ferenczi.

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The short story Gryphon by Charles Baxter is about a substitute teacher that challenges the way the children in the classroom usually think and encourages them to think with their imagination. Growing up, I also had a teacher that challenged me to think creatively as well. She inspired me to work hard and learn as much as I could. Both the story and my personal life have strong influences of a teacher wanting to better the student’s life in an unconventional way.

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In the story Gryphon by Charles Baxter there is a county called Five Oaks. Everybody in the county know each other by heart, but one day a new sub came in for Mr. Hibbler not one of ordinary unemployed community college graduates but a lady nobody had ever seen before. The woman was called Mrs. Ferenczi. Mrs. Ferenczi was not normal, she told all kinds of stories nobody believed except for one boy called Tommy. Tommy defends Mrs. Ferenczi, because he likes the stories that she tells that he wants to believe are true and likes that she was strange..

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