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Some adults can have a mentoring role in a child’s life. The Wednesday Wars by Gary D Schmidt is a novel about Holling Hoodhood’s seventh grade year. In the story Holling is always told by his father how to act so he can inherit the family business, Hoodhood and Associates. When Holling has Mrs. Baker as a teacher he must be nice because Hoodhood and Associates wants to win a bid for her families sporting business. Holling starts to read Shakespeare with Mrs. Baker and begins to see the world around him differently. In this novel Mrs. Baker acts as more of a parental figure to Holling than his own parents. Mr. Hoodhood, Holling’s father is an absent parent and cares more about his business and reputation than his children. At first, when …show more content…

Baker has a more parental role than Holling’s father. When Holling gets hit by a bus, Mrs. Baker takes him to the hospital when his father does not come. She is helping Holling and showing she cares while his father does not come to see if he is ok. Mrs. Baker did not have to do this yet she did anyway. Later in the story Holling is practicing for cross-country tryouts. When Mrs. Baker sees Holling run she starts to coach him so he will get better. Holling thanks her saying, “Mrs. Baker, you helped a lot with my running.” This shows that Mrs. Baker cares for Holling and will help him with things that are important to him. Mr. Hoodhood was only concerned with helping Holling become a better architect and take over the business. Mrs. Baker also uses her connections with the Yankees to set up a meet with Joe Pepitone and Horace Clarke for Holling, Danny, and Doug. This results in them getting tickets to opening day at Yankee Stadium. Holling waits throughout the day but his father never comes to pick him up and bring him to the game. Instead, Mrs. Baker drives him to Yankee Stadium so he can still see the game. “Mr. Hoodhood, I think I could get you up there for some of the game. Call your mother and see if it’s all right.” Mrs. Baker does this because she knows it was important to Holling. She had no selfish reasons for doing what she does to help and support Holling. On the other hand, Mr. Hoodhood does not seem to care about what is important to Holling and always puts his business before his

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The book that is going to discussed in this essay is The Wednesday Wars by Gary D. Schmidt. It is about a boy named Holling and his teacher named Mrs. Baker. This is going on during The Vietnam war. Holling thinks that Mrs. Baker is a mean teacher, but he has to stay with her every wednesday, because he is Presbyterian and everyone in his class goes to Catholic or Hebrew school. Here is the two questions will be discussed in the essay are How do the plays Holling reads with Mrs. Baker mirror events in the book?

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confidence came into play with his father was when his sister, Heather, runs away, Holling stands up to his dad and helps his sister get home safely.(pg 125) He also begins to integrate more into his community. Mr.Hoodhood helps his son (Holling) with his self- transformation. Added to that in the beginning Holling isn’t a fan of running, and doesn't find compassion for running until the end of the book.

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William E. Gladstone once said: “Selfishness is the greatest curse of the human race.” In the novel The Wednesday Wars by Gary D. Schmidt, a boy named Holling Hoodhood has an enormous problem. His teacher despises him and he’s on his own. The worst part about it is that his own father would not help him because infuriating his teacher could, in turn, shatter his father’s successful but still fragile company, which Holling is to inherit if it’s still there when he is of age. But the problem is, is his father worried about himself, or the fact that Holling might not be able to succeed him in the company?

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The novel The Wednesday Wars by Gary D. Schmidt has many overall themes, the story follows a young boy in middle school learning about the nature of life through sad, happy, and devastating events. Holling Hoodhood is the only person in Miss. Baker's class doesn't go to a religious school on Wednesday afternoon, so instead, he has to spend his time with Miss. Baker reading Shakespeare and cleaning the chalkboard erasers. The first theme that is portrayed in The Wednesday Wars by Gary D. Schmidt is that we can learn from others' mistakes , this means that when others mess up it helps us because we then know what not to do .This was portrayed in The Wednesday Wars when Hollings sister Heather runs away to

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Introduction In Wednesday Wars by Gary Schmidt, the Hoodhood family consists of Mr. and Mrs. Hoodhood, Heather, and Holling. Every night at five-o'clock the Hoodhood family watches the news and anchoring the news is Walter Cronkite. Mr. Hoodhood does not speak to anyone about the topic of the events on the news. He does not speak to his wife about it nor even his own son.

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In The Wednesday Wars, the Vietnam war, which also took place in the 1960s, is mentioned numerous times throughout the novel, causing Mai Thi, a vietnamese student, to face discrimination from her peers and teachers. “On the last day before holiday break, (Mrs.Bigio said) to Mai Thi: ‘... You shouldn’t even be here, sitting like a queen in a refugee home while American boys are sitting in swamps on Christmas Day. They’re the ones who should be here. Not you.’” (Schmidt 95).

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