Tommy's Dynamic Characters

As a dynamic character, Tommy enhances the theme by being intrigued with the teacher’s lessons. Tommy undergoes an important internal change because of Mrs. Ferenczi’s actions. Through this dynamic character the theme is reinforced because it shows how Tommy has become involved and intrigued by Mrs. Ferenczi’s lessons. Tommy’s life was a constant routine, it was just completely repetitive. However, a change interrupts his normal everyday life. Predictable routines at school and at home with his chores are turned upside down when chaos appears unexpectedly. For Tommy, Mrs. Ferenczi is weird but she is also freeing and fun to think about. Tommy’s involvement with the gryphon shows how the theme is evident. When Tommy looks up the word gryphon in the dictionary and he sees that it is there, he is ecstatic (Baxter 181).
Ferenczi’s words to be true, because he wanted something more magical in his everyday life. When he struggled to spell the word balcony Mrs. Ferenczi told him how she hated that word too, “It’s ugly. My feeling is, if you don’t like a word, you don’t have to use it” (Baxter 177). Through Tommy, the reader is allowed to see how Mrs. Ferenczi showed that by getting involved in Tommy’s struggle with the word balcony, she was able to engage him on a deeper level than just correct or incorrect. If she had just taught him how to spell balcony correctly, then Tommy would have learned how to spell one word. Instead, Baxter allows the theme to be evident through Tommy, as he shows how giving children odd facts and engaging them on a deeper level encourages them to think deeper and wonder farther into the depths of the