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Tommy’s Strange Substitute In the short story “Gryphon” by Charles Baxter, when Tommy’s fourth grade teacher Mr. Hibler get’s sick, they get a new substitute teacher. They were all expecting one of the mothers who would provide an “easeful class day”(p. 43, l.43) but instead they got something a little different and a new substitute. Her name was Ms. Ferenczi she was strange and very odd. Tommy likes strange things so I think tommy is going to like Ms. Ferenczi. Ms. Ferenczi was saying good morning to the class and she wanted to go straight to shared reading but one student said “Mr. Ferenczi Ma. Ferenczi “yes dear Ms. Ferenczi said” um we usually start class with the pledge of the alligents” and Ms. Ferenczi thinks that wastes

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