Imagine that you wake up every day knowing that the person you love died in war. That is what it is like to be Mrs. Bigio from The Wednesday Wars. In Gary Schmidt’s novel The Wednesday Wars. Mrs. Bigio starts the book as a rude and racist character. But throughout the book, Mrs. Bigio becomes nice and trustable. At the beginning of the book Mrs. Bigio starts off rude and racist. In this scene, Mai Thi is in the lunch line going up to get food and Mrs. Bigio says this. “Pick it up and be glad you're getting it. You shouldn’t even be here,sitting like a queen in a refuge home while American boys are sitting in swamps on Christmas Day. They’re the ones who should be here. Not you.”“pg.95” Here shows how she was being rude and racist towards Mai Thi. And also right before this while Holling, Danny, and Meryl Lee were getting lunch and she kept being rude and teasing them sort of. Another time before this was when Holling was going to get the cream puffs and she kept being rude. This is that Mrs. Bigio says, “Now would be a good time to start.” This is not as bad as what she …show more content…
While everyone is camping they get swarmed by mosquitos and then Mrs.Bigio comes to the rescue. “Mrs. Bigio unslung her backpack, whipped out a can of insect repellant, and went to work on us.’’''pg.225” This shows how kind and trustable Mrs. Bigio is. Because she helped them out when they were panicking. Later on the same page everyone is hungry and Mrs. Bigio says she will coock something and this happens. “Mai Thi stared at it all. “Thit bo kho?” she asked. “It will be by the time we’re done,” said Mrs. Bigio. “The curry and gingerroot are in the front pocket there. I couldn’t find any lemongrass,so we’ll have to make do.” Here she is shown making a Viatnamese dish for Mai Thi. then right after she says that she wants to either foster or adopt Mai Thi. This shows that she has grown and realized her mistakes and is trying to fix