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Book Review: The Wednesday Wars By Mr. Kowalski

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Wednesday Wars February “ Such silence has an actual sound, the sound of disappearance” Suzanne Finnamore. In the book “The Wednesday Wars” Mr.Kowalski takes the drawing of Holling’s father’s design and blends it with his own. Holling’s action’s changed the balance on the scale for his father, because Mr.kowalski now might win the competition for the junior high school contract. After the board meeting Kowalski and associates withdrew their model from the debate because Mr.Kowalski probably knew that he was doing the wrong thing for himself and the school board. Although the debate ended with the Hoodhood’s winning, things still must have changed for Mr.kowalski.
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