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The Wednesday Wars
Gary Schmidt's 2009 young adult novel The Wednesday Wars was nominated for at least two prestigious literary awards. Here are five adjectives that can be used to describe it, with a rationale for...
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The Wednesday Wars
Holling's feelings change from not liking Mrs. Baker at all to Mrs. Baker being his favorite teacher. In the beginning of the book, Holling has to stay in Mrs. Baker's classroom on Wednesday...
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The Wednesday Wars
Mrs. Baker is a middle school teacher who appears strict at first. For example, she corrects Holling Hoodhood's grammar and forces him to read Shakespeare. She clearly has high standards and...
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The Wednesday Wars
The main character is Holling Hoodhood. He is a 7th grader at his school, and he happens to be the only Presbyterian at a school filled with either Catholic or Jewish students. He has a sister, but...
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The Wednesday Wars
Yes, there are examples of characters rallying around each other in The Wednesday Wars. I think there are two very good examples. My first choice is when Holling's sister helps him pull down all...
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The Wednesday Wars
Mrs. Baker gives Holling the job of transporting cream puffs up to the classroom from the cafeteria. The cream puffs are supposed to be for a gathering of the Wives of Vietnam Soldiers. He brings...
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The Wednesday Wars
Holling's sister considers herself a flower child because she believes in peace and is against violence of any sort. For example, Heather is against the Vietnam War. In the novel, she tells her...
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The Wednesday Wars
Mrs. Baker begins assigning Shakespeare's plays to Holling Hoodhood. Holling Hoodhood is forced to go to Mrs. Baker's classroom every Wednesday afternoon because he doesn't attend Catholic...
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The Wednesday Wars
The title of the book is significant to the story because it references what has to happen to Holling Hoodhood every Wednesday afternoon. Holling is a Protestant. That's important because he is...
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The Wednesday Wars
Holling Hoodhood's sister, Heather, almost gets hit by a bus in the chapter titled "January." January doesn't start off so great for either Holling or Heather. Doug Swieteck's brother gets his...
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The Wednesday Wars
One of the author's points in writing The Wednesday Wars is to show the power of love and friendship. While Holling Hoodhood, the protagonist, originally thinks his teacher, Mrs. Baker, is out to...
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The Wednesday Wars
One of the conflicts that the main character, Holling Hoodhood, faces is that he thinks Mrs. Baker, one of his teachers, hates him. When all the other students at Camillo Junior High attend...
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The Wednesday Wars
Throughout Gary Schmidt's The Wednesday Wars, Holling applies multiple lessons found in Shakespeare's plays to his own life. Two of those lessons concern better understanding his father and...
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Literature
I'm going to go with Heather Hoodhood being a static character. She and Holling do manage to emotionally connect at the end of the novel, and the reader sees perhaps a glimmer of change in her;...
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The Wednesday Wars
In Gary Schmidt's The Wednesday Wars, Mr. Hoodhood is somewhat emotionally affected by the Vietnam War because he sees what terrible losses the war is leading to, but in general, Mr. Hoodhood...
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The Wednesday Wars
Holling's backpack tore at the seams and dumped out all of its contents. His pack was loaded with four cans of chili and all of the utensils for the entire class. During the month of June,...
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The Wednesday Wars
During the middle of yet another tedious bomb drill one Wednesday afternoon, Mrs. Baker decides to take things into her own hands. She tells Holling that they will leave the classroom to survey...
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The Wednesday Wars
Assassination is the act of assassinating somebody. That does not help too much, so let me define "assassinate" instead. The Merriam-Webster Dictionary defines "assassinate" in the following...
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The Wednesday Wars
One way in which Holling's father lets him down in Gary Schmidt's The Wednesday Wars concerns breaking his promise to take Holling to the Yankee's baseball game on Opening Day. In fact, he...
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The Wednesday Wars
In Gary Schmidt's The Wednesday Wars, Holling's father is the only one who cares about "the Perfect House," and the irony is the house isn't really all that perfect. Therefore, no one ever...
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The Wednesday Wars
In January of Gary Schmidt's The Wednesday Wars, Holling is assigned to read Macbeth around the same time Doug Swieteck's brother goes around the schools in town taping clippings of newspaper...
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The Wednesday Wars
By "beginning of the book" I am going to assume that you would like events that happen during September. The book doesn't have a numbered chapter system. Instead, each chapter is the name of the...
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The Wednesday Wars
Holling's problem is that he doesn't have enough money to take Meryl Lee, his crush, someplace nice for their Valentine's Day date. His shortage of funds is no joke: he literally has only has...
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The Wednesday Wars
The first quote to appear that gives the reader some insight into Meryl Lee's character is the following quote. So I asked Meryl Lee Kowalski, who has been in love with me since she first laid...
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The Wednesday Wars
The novel The Wednesday Wars is organized into months, spanning the whole of Holling's academic year from September to June. In October, for the sake of his father's job, Holling behaves in a...
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The Wednesday Wars
In Gary Schmidt's The Wednesday Wars, Holling's life is affected the most by the Vietnam War the moment he learns Mrs. Baker's husband has been declared missing in action. Up to that point, no one...
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The Wednesday Wars
Holling does not want to play the part of Ariel, because Holling is a seventh grade boy. Ariel is an unbecoming character to a young adolescent male, because Ariel is a fairy, and Holling thinks...
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The Wednesday Wars
Here's a very short summary: Holling accidentally messes up his dad's chances of winning the contract to design the new school. He also goes on a date with Meryl, and he reads Romeo and Juliet and...
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The Wednesday Wars
The last chapter of The Wednesday Wars is a good read. A lot of different things happen, so it feels a bit disjointed at times, but that's to be expected at the end of a school year. With a new...
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The Wednesday Wars
It is an interesting question that you are asking. Is the title The Wednesday Wars, plural, because there are multiple wars happening on Wednesdays? Or is it The Wednesday Wars because each new...
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Physically, almost nothing is wrong with Holling Hoodhood's perfect house. It's right in the middle of town, it has a perfectly manicured lawn, and everything is painted to perfection. The...
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The Wednesday Wars
In Gary Schmidt's The Wednesday Wars, the greatest similarity in background Danny Hupfer and Mai Thi Huong share is that they both come from ethnic minority groups that are persecuted. Danny is...
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The Wednesday Wars
In February of Gary Schmidt's The Wednesday Wars, Holling takes Meryl Lee Kowalski out on a date for Valentine's Day. Meryl Lee's father is the owner of Kowalski and Associates, the architecture...
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The Wednesday Wars
In Gary Schmidt's The Wednesday Wars, at first, Mrs. Baker seems to resent the fact that Holling Hoodhood will be left alone in her class every Wednesday afternoon while all other seventh graders...
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The Wednesday Wars
In "November" Holling agrees to play the part of Ariel in a production of The Tempest. He agrees to play the part because it allows him to obtain the cream puffs that his classmates demanded from...
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The Wednesday Wars
The sentences that you are referring to can be found in the first chapter of Gary Schmidt's The Wednesday Wars. Holling's sentences are similar to the sentences that his classmates get in that...
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The Wednesday Wars
In Gary Schmidt's The Wednesday Wars, one of Mr. Hoodhood's great ambitions is to pass his architecture firm, Hoodhood and Associates, down to his son Holling when Mr. Hoodhood is ready to retire....
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The Wednesday Wars
Gary Schmidt's The Wednesday Wars takes readers through a full school year for the protagonist, Holling Hoodhood. He is a 7th grader at Camillo Junior High School. The book begins in the year...
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The Wednesday Wars
The job that Kowalski and Associates got instead of Hoodhood and Associates is the renovation project of Yankee Stadium. I would like to make a small clarification though. Kowalski and Associates...
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The Wednesday Wars
The Wednesday Wars has a lot of great moments in it. But the sequence in question is one of my favorites, because Mrs. Baker is put in an incredibly tight spot, which of course she handles...
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The reason for why Holling's sister left for California might change depending on which character that you ask. If you were to ask Holling or Mr. Hoodhood, they would tell you that Heather left...
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Parts of their relationship could be identified as a tragic relationship, because their mutual affection for each other is greatly affected by forces outside of their control. When Meryl Lee and...
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Holling Hoodhood quotes a small bit of text from Shakespeare's play The Tempest. The line that he quotes is the following line: “The quality of mercy is not strained” To be really specific,...
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The Wednesday Wars
Holling Hoodhood wins his race in the cross country meet the exact same way that most great runners win. Holling is blessed with a mixture of natural talent, hard work and determination, and good...
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The Wednesday Wars
The Wednesday Wars follows the life of Holling Hoodhood through one entire school year. Holling attends a school that is 50% Jewish and 50% Catholic. I know, weird. To add to the oddity of...
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The Wednesday Wars
In Chapter Five, "January," Mrs. Baker gave Holling a 150-question test on The Tragedy of Macbeth. This is the test that Holling got on his first Wednesday back from the winter or Christmas...
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The Wednesday Wars
In Gary Schmidt's The Wednesday Wars, one reason why Holling loves The Tempest so much, which he reads during the month of November, is because of the elements of the plot. As Holling explains, The...
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The Wednesday Wars
Parallelism is one literary device frequently used by author Gary Schmidt in the chapter titled "June" of The Wednesday Wars, and Schmidt uses a couple of different forms of parallelism.Parallelism...
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The Wednesday Wars
Holling has several episodes with the cream puffs. The first time, he is threatened with death (or at least harm) by some of his classmates, including Meryl Lee, because Mrs. Baker gives him a...
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The Wednesday Wars
In February, Mrs. Bigio not only bakes cupcakes for the whole school, but she also gives Holling two tickets to see the play Romeo and Juliet. She has a special theater membership that entitles her...