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Don T Call Me Ishmael By Michael Gerard Bauer

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Don’t Call Me Ishmael Analytical Essay Ishmael Leseur is the main character in “Don’t Call Me Ishmael” a book by Michael Gerard Bauer. As a young boy, he courageously stepped up to year nine only to be bullied for his name, embarrassed in front of his first love and to become a social outcast. This leads to him naming year nine the toughest, the weirdest, the most embarrassingly awful and best year of his life. One of the ways Ishmael refers to year 9 is the toughest year of his life. Is when Ishmael started year nine thinking he could continue being invisible like he did in the 8th grade. But that unfortunately stopped. Students like “Barry Bagsley, Doug Savage, Danny Wallace” wouldn’t allow the walking shadow pass the school hallway being …show more content…

It was just another day of school of another period with the debating club at their semi-finals against Lourdes College Hillview. As we know Ishmael is a very timid and nervous character, that when it was his turn to debate on stage on behalf of St Daniels he completely stuttered on lost of words and surprisingly fainted in front of both debating teams and audiences. I’s wasn’t the part when he passed that was weird and embarrassing but hoe he fell that was. See Ishmael didn’t exactly know what happened after his pass out until the following day at lunch time. His friends asked him if he knew he did at the semi-finals yesterday and Ishmael responded that he just fainted. But his friends the asked him again if he knew what he did with his hand. Ishmael responded that he pointed his hand towards Kelly Faulkner to state his debate but instead fainted, but nothing more than that. James – Ishmael’s friend, then reveals to him that his pointed hands leaned and touched Kelly’s breast when he fainted on stage. Ishmael tries to refuse the weird and embarrassing awful moment which he didn’t intend to commit, but instead it was a classical joke repeatedly said by his

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