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Brent Bishop's Transformation In Whirligig By Paul Fleischman

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Brent Bishop just moved to Chicago, and is going to attend a new high school for his senior year. At a party with his new classmates, Brent is humiliatingly rejected that night by a girl that he was very interested in. Furious and flustered, Brent flees the party inebriated, and one poor decision changes everything. In Paul Fleischman’s book, Whirligig, Brent undergoes certain difficulties necessary for his transformation. The embarrassing encounter with Brianna at the party was to much for Brent to accept. “Brent stood, brain and limbs paralyzed, as if turned to stone by her curse. He’d never been in such a situation and had no ready response.” (Fleischman 15) Driving and confused, Brent felt hopeless. “He saw that the car was drifting to

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