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Frindle
"Frindle" is about a fifth grade boy named Nick who is always getting in trouble. His teacher is very strict, and makes the class constantly check the dictionary. Nick gets the idea to...
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Frindle
The central character in Frindle is Nick Allen, the fifth grader who invents the word "frindle." Nick is intelligent and extremely creative, the innovative mind who engineers elaborate pranks in...
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The primary theme of the book Frindle is that words have power. Nick asks his teacher, Mrs. Granger, who invents words. He asks who decided that the word "dog" referred to the pet. Mrs. Granger...
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On the front page of the Thursday morning edition of The Westfield Gazette, the headline was the following: Local 5th Grader Says, "Move over, Mr. Webster" The newspaper article was about Nick...
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In the novel "Frindle" Nick Allen is a bright and clever 5th grader. He is known in his class for having the ability to try and sway the teacher from her lesson plans by asking questions that will...
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No, the word frindle is not a real word. In the story, however, it becomes a real word. The genre of the book is realistic fiction, and in the story the word frindle winds up in the dictionary....
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The book Frindle is ultimately a story about power relations within society. The authors present the story through the eyes of a fifth grade boy named Nick Allen, who is represented as smart and a...
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The problem in Andrew Clements' Frindle, also called the conflict, concerns the fact that Nick Allen, the protagonist, is an unusually creative person. As a creative person, Nick has a tendency to...
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When Nick is a student in college, he finds a package on the doorstep of his apartment. He opens it and discovers that it is from his former fifth grade teacher, Mrs. Granger. Nick finds three...
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Nick Allen is an expert at asking teachers unnecessary questions in order to waste time. In fact, he is known at school for doing this. On the first day in Mrs. Granger's fifth grade class, Nick...
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The main characters in Frindle are Nick Allen, a fifth grader, and Mrs. Granger, his English teacher. Nick Allen is a clever, creative kid. In third grade, he got his brand new teacher in trouble...
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Three things happened on the day that Nick Allen got his big idea. The first thing happened while Nick and his friend, Janet, were walking home from school. They usually took the bus, but had...
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The beginning of the story is mostly exposition; setting the scene and introducing the characters. It would most likely extend from Chapter 1 to Chapter 6. In these chapters, the reader learns...
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In the story Frindle, Judy receives a copy of the fifth grade class picture at Lincoln Elementary School. In the picture, the seven fifth grade teachers are standing at the ends of the rows of...
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Frindle takes place in a relatively modern town. Much of the action centers on a fifth grader and his classroom and home. Nick Allen is in fifth grade. He lives in Westfield, New Hampshire and...
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In Andrew Clements' Frindle, to stop "frindle," Mrs. Granger first tries to explain that it cannot be a word because it has no meaning. Next she threatens the students who use the word. Each...
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As with any piece of literature, each piece—whether a novel, play or short story—offers varying themes to the reader (or audience), and different people come away with different interpretations. In...
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There are several themes in Clements' work. In my mind, I think that most overwhelming theme is the relationship between language and power. Nick and Mrs. Granger have a battle which is...
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Nick compares his battle with Mrs. Granger to a game of chess. Nick has chosen to challenge Mrs. Granger's authority by inventing the word "frindle." When confronted by his teacher about the...
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Nick had invented the word “frindle” to test the theory that if everyone agreed on the meaning of the word, then it becomes a word. Mrs. Granger and the school fought the students in this...
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Nick was famous in his elementary school for distracting his teachers and wasting class time: Nick was an expert in asking the delaying question--also known as the teacher-stopper, or the...
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Mrs. Granger assigned an oral report on dictionaries to Nick. Nick was notorious for being a skilled time-waster at school. He loved to distract his teachers to waste time and avoid classwork....
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The title of the book, Frindle, refers to the name that Nick (Nicholas Allen) decides to use when referring to a simple pen. He is disappointed with having been placed in Mrs Granger's class in...
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At the end of Andrew Clements' Frindle, after reading the letter Mrs. Granger had written him ten years ago, Nick comes to understand the significance of a comment Mrs. Granger made ten years ago...
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In Andrew Clement’s first novel, Frindle, a fifth grader named Nick Allen creates a new word for “pen” to challenge his new teacher, who has a reputation throughout the school for being strict and...
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Towards the beginning of Andrew Clements' Frindle, Nick learns from Mrs. Granger that people have power, power to create the world as they want to see it. Nick learns about creative power when he...
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Judy Morgan is a reporter from The Westfield Gazette who writes an article about Nick’s invented word for pen, frindle. Judy hears about the word from Ted Bell, an advertising salesman for the...
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The main conflict in the story is the conflict between Nick and Mrs. Granger. Nick is annoyed that Mrs. Granger gives too much homework, and Mrs. Granger is annoyed that Nick is being disruptive....
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Bud Lawrence was a local businessman in town. He read an article about Nick Allen's new word and was quick to go to his lawyer to file a trademark claim on it. Within a few days, he set up a...
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In Frindle by Andrew Clements, Nick makes up a new word, "frindle" to take his language arts teacher at her word. Mrs. Granger told the students that by using a word, each person made a decision...
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On the first day of fifth grade in Mrs. Granger's class, Nick Allen decides to ask one of his famous slightly off topic (or at least unnecessary) questions. He usually asks these questions in...
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Judy Morgan works as a reporter for The Westfield Gazette. It wasn’t a very interesting job because not much of interest occurred in Westfield. One day a fellow worker told her that his fourth...
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In chapter 5 of Andrew Clements' Frindle, Nick's first big idea is to question who decides the meanings of words. This idea gives him inspiration for his next big idea in chapter 6 and serves as...
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In this story, Bud Lawrence is a "leading citizen" of Westfield and the wealthy owner of two restaurants. Overall, he's opportunistic, clever, and manipulative. Depending on your point of view, you...
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Frindle is written in third person omniscient. This means that we know everyone’s point of view. Most of the story centers on the point of view of Nick. Point of view describes how a story is...
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On the day that Nick Allen came up with his big, brilliant idea, three things happened. First, Nick and Janet had to walk home from school because they missed the bus due to a school newspaper...
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The conflict in Andrew Clements' book Frindle is solved, or resolves, when Nick comes to understand just how influential he can be by carrying out his creative ideas.After Nick's accomplishment of...
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Andrew Clements's Frindle tells the story of fifth grader Nick Allen and his attempt to create a new word. Nick is inspired to invent a word when he asks his strict English teacher, Miss Granger,...
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In Andrew Clements' Frindle, as soon as Nick decides to take the meanings of words into his own hands by inventing his own word for the word pen, Nick knows his next step is to get other people to...
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In Andrew Clements’ book, Frindle, Nick Allen has a very exciting junior year of college. He turns 21 years old, which means he is eligible to receive the trust fund money that his father started...
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I would say that the best part is the notion of "inventing" the word to change the balances of power. The idea of language being something invented to develop power and to assert a sense of...
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The class picture had to stay that way, with every kid in the fifth grade holding up a pen while saying "Frindle!" instead of "Cheese!", because the photographer was out of film. It would have been...
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The falling action of Frindle is when Nick deals with the fall-out of having invented a new word. The resolution is the ending, when Allen and Mrs. Granger exchange letters and gifts showing they...
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Judy Morgan, a reporter with The Westfield Gazette, went to Nick Allen's elementary school to find out if the rumors were true. She had heard that he was causing quite a stir at school by calling...
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Mrs. Granger's famous battle cry, one that all her students past and present know all too well, is "Look it up! That's why we have the dictionary." Mrs. Granger teaches her class that words gain...
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Primarily, the conflict in Frindle exists as individual vs. individual. Nick and Mrs. Granger represent two polar opposites and the primary conflict resides here. Mrs. Granger represents...
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Nick’s father puts the money in a trust fund, and when Nick turns twenty-one he gives most of it away but buys some things for himself. He also sets up a scholarship fund in Mrs. Granger’s name....
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The fundamental problem in the story of "Frindle" is the construction of language and power. Nick is a fifth grader who develops new and innovative ways to destabilize teachers and their sense of...
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Nick's reputation as a troublemaker is well deserved, and the examples of him manipulating, infuriating, and exhausting teachers are plentiful. He turns Miss Deaver's classroom, for example, "into...
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Story structure has three parts: character (the “who”), plot (the “what”) and setting (the “where & when”.) Sometimes we need to make inferences (decide for ourselves based on clues in the...