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Analysis Of The Story 'Gryphon' By Charles Baxter

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Om Awate
Mrs. Asselin
Language arts 6/7
14 december, 2015
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The story “ Gryphon ” is a long story written by Charles Baxter. This story is about a 4th grader Called Tommy who has strange liking for his new substitute teacher, Ms. Ferenczi. Tommy is a kid who has lived in Michigan for his entire life. Because Five Oaks, the town he lives in is a rural community, Tommy has never really seen anything amusing or differently new. Mrs. Ferenczi is a strange substitute teacher who tells Tommy’s class unbelievable but spectacular tales that she claims has experienced in the past. Tommy is attracted to this new pattern of behavior in the substitute teacher as all of the other substitute teachers are just college going students who teach a bunch

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