Wish Stealers Analysis

Mrs.Henry and Ruby stayed in her classroom all day because she couldn’t go to lunch or recess with the other students. If she had to go to the restrooms the Marshals had to help her down the hall to make sure she was safe. The Marshals walked Ruby everywhere home, to school, to the bathroom, everywhere and always by her side. By the end of the winter break, she was stressed out she had to see Dr. Robert Coles she saw him once a week either at her school or at her home.

The Novel Killing Mr. Griffin by: Lois Duncan is a story about the plot of kidnapping the English teacher of Del Norte High school. Being a student of Del Norte High school, Susan McConnell (the protagonist) encounters some difficulties and joy after she finally gets accepted in the “popular” herd. These upside and downsides turn into major themes which are incorporated during the course of the book. The major themes that are developed inside the book are: peer pressure/manipulation, psychopaths, conscience/guilt.

Sue McConnell, a smart straight ‘A’ student gets invited to the plan. She has a huge crush on Dave, so she’s in for it. The group gets her involved by asking her to request a meeting with Mr. Griffin. After the meeting, the group plans to kidnap him to scare him.

“ Okay, we go. We watch little lily-liver Leper not jump from the tree, and I ruin my grade,” Gene says, “… Don’t go. Your grades are more important.” says Finny

Griffin also uses examples from her own family to expand upon the title’s meaning. Griffin claims her family was constantly pretending to be happy, perfect or aristocratic. In family photos, everyone smiled together and attempted to make it seem like nothing was wrong. The author claims that looking back on these pictures, this was clearly not true, as she can see the pain her father his hiding in one picture, or signs of trauma in another. The real conflict underneath was never truly revealed. The family also made attempts to appear aristocratic and high class when they really were not. Griffin claims that the family was aware that this was not true, but still attempted to keep up the ruse. Griffin writes:

Throughout this essay Griffin uses many different patterns through her many unusual writing techniques. By using these types of writing techniques, Griffin is conducting her argument. She compares her life to those of Himmler, Helene, and many others throughout the story. She

Throughout "Our Secret" Griffin explores the different characters' fears and secrets and she gives specific insights into these "secrets". Through examining others Griffin comes to terms with her own feelings, secrets, and fears. She relates to Himmler, Leo, Helene, and everyone else even though she is different than all of them. One fact that can be made about all of these characters is that they all represent humans and human emotion

Griffin returns home to write his story, which goes viral. Though he receives a lot of positive

Philip Malloy is known as a good kid. He doesn’t act out in class, isn’t mean to anyone, and gets pretty good grades except for Ms. Narwins class. Therefore having a bad grade in her class means that he cannot try out for the track team. In a conversation between Philip and his father, Philip blames his bad grade on the teacher and doesn’t want to share the truth. “‘I saw your grades.

One day in Lindley Middle School there were two girls in Mr. Foreman’s classroom and their names were Anazia Maisonet-Snell and Lanecia Hayward. So as they were just sitting in class doing their work Lanecia decided she was going to take Anazia’s pencil case because her pencil broke and when Anazia saw Lanecia took her pencil case Anazia said, “Give me back my pencil case” and Lanecia didn’t which made Anazia very upset. Then Anazia got louder because she knew that that would make Lanecia give back her pencil case. Since Lanecia gave Anazia back her pencil case Lanecia didn’t bother trying to take it again.

They laughed and started to play with Brodie’s goo ball until it was bed time.

The students work on assigned classwork on the IPad. Bobby begins singing. Ms. Fizzle approaches Bobby to help him with the assignment. Ms. Frizzle walks away. Bobby stands up, and the teacher aide approaches and asks Bobby to have a seat he sits down and starts mumbling under his breath. Bobby begins staring around the classroom. Bobby looks at the IPad (class assignment) puts it away and walks to the back of the classroom and stands behind one of his classmate seats mumbling and singing to himself. Teacher Aide addresses Bobby behavior and asks him to return to the front of the class. His classmates begin snickering.

Mr. Griffin is not a very well liked teacher. His students think that he’s out to get them and wants them to fail his class. Mark, David, Betsy and Jeff make a decision to get back at him for everything that he has put them through. They decide that they need someone else to help them with the revenge plan, so they rope Susan into helping them. When this plan goes wrong they will have to make some decisions on how to fix the mess that they got themselves into. Will they be able to fix

Griffin’s story mainly involves specific figures in history, but some stories involve members of her own family interacting with her. This happens due to the fact that during some events mentioned, like Himmler’s participation in the Holocaust, Griffin was not old enough or even alive. Thus she has to use some of her family’s opinions and existence during the time period to show more era-related secrets. For example, both the story with her grandfather and the story with her mother’s mother are technically not her own; however, she uses her role in the stories to interact with the culture at that time. Griffin’s personal story interacts with cultural stories because she effectively manages to connect two or more experiences that seem completely and utterly different while drawing parallels.

SUMMARY: This is the story of a young boy named Bobby who has a big problem at school. His teacher is a monster! Ms. Kirby stomps and roars and she won’t let him throw paper airplanes in the classroom. At least Bobby can go to his favorite spot in the park to forget about his teacher problems...until one day when he runs into his teacher there! One afternoon and a lost hat later, Bobby finally realizes that maybe Ms. Kirby isn't a monster after all.