In this quote, Holling speaks about how Mrs. Baker gave him an exceedingly complicated sentence to diagram, while the other students received fairly simple sentences. The sentence that he was given seemed to be so long and so complex that it appeared that even the man “who wrote it couldn’t diagram it,” which displays that the sentence is clearly very intricate.
This quote is definitely a distinct reason why Holling might assume Mrs. Baker hates him. Since Mrs. Baker provided a much more complex sentence to him than she did for the rest of class, that shows that Mrs. Baker wants to almost “torture” Holling. When Mrs. Baker gave Holling such a composite sentence, she hoped that it would challenge him. Not only this, but in order to further prove Holling’s point, Mrs. Baker gave him this sentence so that he would have a harder time diagramming, and would struggle much more than the other students Mrs. Baker supposedly preferred.
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Although his teacher doesn’t seem to like him very much, spending so much time with her on school days and sometimes after school will hopefully allow them to warm up to each other and possibly like each other a bit more than they now do. His teacher will probably provide him with a lot of work, maybe more than other students may receive, making it a stressful school year, however, the work that he will receive and the experience he will garner with his teacher will allow him to adapt to experiencing things he may not enjoy without complaining about it too