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Themes In The Wednesday Wars By Gary D. Schmidt

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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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