"Killing Mr. Griffin Susan and Betsy are two very different people. The react to their actions and other peoples in different ways. Susan is a smart student‚ that doesn’t really have many friends. Betsy is a semi smart student‚ popular‚ and very pretty girl. Some ways that they are different are for example...the writing assignment for the "Final song of Ophelia."� Betsy told Mr. Griffin that‚ "I didn’t understand the assignment‚"� "How can anybody write a final song for Ophelia when she’s already
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Kye Schnittgen Kill In the book “Killing Mr. Griffin” written by Lois Duncan‚ there is a character named Mark and here’s a few of his attributes; He’s quiet‚ a leader‚ and he is pretty calm. Mark doesn’t talk unless he feels like what he has to say is important. He doesn’t even tell him family he’s leaving to school or answer any of his aunt’s questions. “Jeff came by for him earlier than usual this morning. He was honking the car horn out there at seven-thirty and Mark was out the door before
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Donisha Smith Period 2 3/7/11 Book Report: Killing Mr. Griffin My book report is on “Killing Mr. Griffin”. The author of this book is Lois Duncan. Lois Duncan is a female novelist who writes suspense stories for teenagers. This book was published by Little Brown on April 1978. The protagonist of this book is named Susan McConnell. Susan is a sixteen year old junior at Del Norte High School in Albuquerque‚ New Mexico. She is a loner and mostly stays at home to study. She is a hardworking student
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their English teacher‚ Mr. Griffin‚ for various reasons such as marks or dislike of his teaching methods. Mark‚ who had failed the course and deeply loathed Mr. Griffin‚ brainstormed to kidnap and "scare" the teacher with the help of his friends‚ Jeff and Betsy. In desperate need of a distraction or diversion for this plan‚ Mark told his friend‚ Dave to ask the smartest girl in the class‚ Susan (who liked Dave) for help; she was expected to arrange a conference with Mr. Griffin on the kidnapping day
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Killing Mr.Griffin by the author of Lois Duncan is about a very strict and demanding english teacher whose name is Mr.Griffin. Some of his students are fed up with them working hard and getting bad grades and having to retake his class so a group plans to kidnap the teacher and teach him a lesson but after they get into the plan and put it into action they realize their plan had gone down the drain. Irma Ruggles is portrayed as sneaky and wanting attention but loving and kind. Irma Ruggles is
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been crying. David wanted to talk to her so he drove over to her house and picked her up so that they can go get something to eat. They got into the car and Susan asked David what they did to Mr.Griffin. David told Susan that Mark tried to scare Mr. Griffin but it did’t go as planned and Mr.Griffin didn’t get scared as Mark thought he would. Susan‚ concerned asked a lot more questions in regard to Mr.Griffin. Which resulted in her knowing that Mr.Griffin was still in the mountains tied up. Susan
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GRIFFIN: CHAPTER 12 RELATIONAL DIALECTICS Leslie Baxter and Barbara Montgomery 1. Griffin writes that Baxter and Montgomery “study how communication creates and constantly changes close relationships.” Explain. Baxter saw no law of gravitational pull to predict interpersonal attraction‚ no co-efficient of friction that would explain human conflict. She found‚ instead‚ people struggling to interpret the mixed messages about their relationship that they both spoke and heard. Ideas were the same
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Susan Griffin compares and contrasts cellular life and weaponry as she writes her essay‚ Our Secret. She uses these ideas together with characters and events‚ to help explain causes and effects in the essay. She alternates from the cell’s function to the history of weaponry throughout the essay. With both these ideas‚ she starts at the elementary level‚ with a cell’s life and with the Vergeltungswaffe missile‚ and tells how they progress. In this essay‚ I will describe how Griffin uses cellular life
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looks back at you in the mirror every day. It is amazing how you can find out about yourself in the most random of places such as‚ the diary of a Nazi in Susan Griffin’s case‚ or the fictional writings of an author in Richard Rodriguez’s case. Griffin and Rodriquez both have very different styles of writing. They are different in many ways‚ such as their culture‚ where they draw their information from‚ and just their overall lives in general. At the same time however‚ they are similar. They both
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courage to change their destiny. Griffin is ultimately interested in finding her own identity but has been oppressed by her grandmother to not search inwardly. She therefore uses Himmler as a mask by examining what experiences shaped him as a child to understand what may have molded her. Griffin concentrates on connections between people‚ childhood‚ and objects to Heinrich Himmler’s life to better understand social and personal identity‚ and oppression. Although Griffin writes an excellent account on
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