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'Five Oaks In The Short Story Gryphon' By Charles Baxter

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In the short story “Gryphon” by Charles Baxter, there is a fourth grader named Tommy who’s teacher, Mr. Hibler, developed a cough. Mr. Hibler couldn’t come the next day, and instead of the regular, boring substitutes subbing for him, a woman Tommy had never seen before entered the room carrying a purple purse, checkerboard lunch box, and a few books to class. Her fine light hair was done up in a chignon and she wore glasses that seemed to have to faintest blue tint. Her name is Miss. Ferenczi. Tommy defends Miss. Ferenczi because she is different and strange. He knows “every barn, every broken windmill, every fence, every anhydrous ammonia tank, by heart.” (pg. 63 l. 608-609) This shows that Five Oaks is a very simple and basic town with
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