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Character Analysis Of Holling Hoodhood In The Wednesday Wars By Gary D. Schmidt

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In the novel The Wednesday Wars by Gary D. Schmidt the main character, Holling Hoodhood is born 1954 while at the same time as Mickey Mantle the baseball legend was starting his whole career. Mickey Mantle was born in 1931 and at a young age he started playing baseball. Like Mickey Mantle, Holling had a lot to look forward to and a great life ahead. Mickey was taught new things at an early age like switch hitting and Holling was already discovering how good of an architect he would make. In the novel Holling goes through positive and negative times where he just wants to give up like where Mickey Mantle gets moved up to the major leagues as a right fielder but then gets in to a slump and gets moved down and tells his dad he is given up but
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The theme I chose for The Wednesday Wars is the growth of Holling. They call it The Wednesday Wars because every Wednesday Holling had to stay with his teacher that he thought did not like him and she made him work and over the year he grew in friendship with her. The reason I chose the growth of Holling as the theme is because throughout the year, Mrs. Baker helped him grow in stature and knowledge. I chose this because at the start of the book Holling was bad at running and then Mrs. Baker helped him and he grew in running. Lastly, I chose the growth of Holling is because Holling grew in friendship with Meryl Lee.

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