How To Read Literature Like A Professor For Kids Sparknotes

In the book How to Read Literature Like a Professor for Kids by Thomas C. Foster, chapter fourteen “Marked for Greatness” compares to The Skin I'm In by Sharon G. Flake. The Skin I am In, is a book based on a young girl named Maleeka Madison. In the book Maleeka takes us along with her through her 7th grade year of middle school. Maleeka undergoes bullies, falling in with the wrong crowd of people, getting framed and much more. In the book Maleeka has an English teacher named Miss Saunders. Miss Saunders is described as “tall and fat” with a “giant white stain spread halfway across her face.” Children as well as the teachers in the book dislike Miss Saunders, they call her names, and talk behind her back. But despite all the harsh words and

In chapter fourteen it states, “In books, a physical flaw a scar, a limp, an amputation, a twisted spine, an ugly face can be a symbol.” It also states that, "Being different is almost always a metaphor for being different on the inside.”

Miss Saunders is a flawed woman she has a scar on her face and small feet, but she is different on the inside. She cares for her students more than anything, and she pushes them to be their best. Taking one look at Miss Saunders, seeing her unusual characteristics can make it easy to judge her. But as you look deeper into her character you see a strong woman who has faced many struggles in life, but still stays positive.

In the book How to Read Like a Professor for Kids, chapter fourteen, “Marked for Greatness” It says, "Does a character who looks horrible always act horribly? Not

Flake. The main character is Maleeka Madison. Maleeka is bullied because of the color of her skin. The students would make fun of her because her skin was darker than theirs. They made jingles about her skin and called her mean words. Caleb, the boy Maleeka was dating, even broke up with her because she was bullied so frequently. In the book How to Read Like a Professor for Kids, chapter fourteen, “Marked for Greatness” the author brings up Quasimodo from Victor Hugo's The Hunchback of Notre Dame. I believe that Quasimodo's story relates to Maleeka’s in a way. Quasimodo is different and the people in the story act “selfishly, cruelly and monstrously” towards him because of that. Maleeka is the same, because of the color of her skin and the clothes she wears the students in her story treat her differently. Maleeka doesn't have a deformity like Quasimodo, but the students in the story treat her like she