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Why Is Tommy Defending Ms. Ferenczi?
Defending an interesting Teacher In the story called Gryphon by Charles Baxter, Tommy, a student of Mr. Hibler, got a substitute which was Ms.Ferenczi. Why was Tommy defending Ms. Ferenczi? Well, Tommy defended Ms. Ferenczi in many different ways. One way is that Tommy made up the hamster story and said it could happen,there was a mad scientist named Dr. Frankenbush and he combined a human and a hamster(pg.57, l.430 to 445). The way Tommy said this story to Carls was in a way that Carl can believe it and everyone can believe in Ms. Ferenczi’s story about Gryphon. Another way was when Tommy whispered to himself in the bus, “There is a tree . . . That I’ve seen . . . (pg.63, l.606 to 610.)”. Tommy showed the way on how he knew every windmill,
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