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Mr Krupp Chapter Summaries
Why challenge a legend
Back in elementary school, reading wasn’t the thing to do or to be part of ‘the cool kids’, but there was sure one book everyone did read & enjoy. That one book or series is Captain Underpants. Now a days, my younger brother who is only 10, even read it. This book was and still is a big hit among student’s readers in elementary grades. This book is available in almost any library around town, except high schools or colleges, where students are expected to have higher reading preferences.
This series introduces two fourth grade students and best friends whose names are Harold & George. Together they write a comic book about a super hero named Captain Underpants. Cpt. U is based off of their mean principal, Mr. Krupp. One day, George & Harold find a 3-D ring that has the ability to hypnotize a person. So you can guess who they decided to hypnotize first already. They decide to play around with the ring to turn Mr. Krupp from a chicken to a monkey & finally decide to turn their comic book fantasy into a reality. By now it’s too late & the joke has gone too far, Mr. Krupp now believes he is now
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Krupp is referred to as “that old guy” &”Mean old Mr. Krupp”. I do not find this offensive but rather common among young children anyways. Also, parents complained that the series contained partial nudity because Captain Underpants wears almost no clothes except for his signature underwear. If you were to count him showing off his chest as nudity, then that may be different. But if that is the case, then people at the beach would be restricted to wearing a shirt to the beach. Violence throughout the book involves the 2 protagonists fighting against evil robots & beating them with wooden planks, but other than that, nothing else. In the book, Mr. Krupp blackmails the 2 students into behaving well at school & doing chores for him in return of a tape where they were caught pranking the football team. This is considered

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