The story “Gryphon” written by Charles Baxter is about a boy named Tommy who attends Five Oaks Elementary School in Five Oaks; a small town in Michigan. He has a teacher named Mr. Hibler. He started to get sick during their lesson, so the next day, they had a substitute named Mrs. Ferenczi. She wasn’t from Five Oaks. Nobody in the class has ever seen her before. She wasn’t like any other substitute teacher. She was strange according to Tommy and the rest of his class. The main characters of the story is, Mrs. Ferenczi, Tommy, and Wayne.
Mrs. Ferenczi is the substitute teacher that is not normal. Tommy describes her as a strange looking woman with lines on the side of her mouth that make her look like a marionette. (P. 44 L. 85) She is not from Five Oaks so nobody has ever seen her in that town before. She tells interesting stories that seem like a fairytale, but sometimes some of the stories sound some what true. She sometimes goes off topic when she is teaching, but still is a good teacher and does what she needs to do. …show more content…
His teacher Mr. Hibler got sick so they got a substitute teacher. When he first saw Mrs. Ferenczi, he thought she was a very odd looking teacher. Once she started to teach his class, he started to like her. She would tell the class interesting stories and he would try to believe the stories. He doesn't like to be wrong. He was sitting on the bus next to Carl and he tried to make him believe Mrs. Ferenczi’s stories. He made up the “humster” story to sound like he was right when he was talking to Carol. He described the “humster” as a human and a human and a hamster