It's the rainy month of November and Holling's life has not changed too much. He still sounds his Wednesdays with Mrs. Baker, but he has really gotten hooked on Shakespeare. He memorizes the curses from the Tempest and starts to relate the events in his life to the writing. He is also still dealing with finding a way to get over twenty cream puffs in the next few days without an advance in his allowance. Mrs. Baker is really testing him lately, but luckily for Holling his father landed the deal with Baker Sports emporium. Sadly, he still will not budge about the allowance. So, Holling heads over to Goldman Bakery in hopes that his insufficient amount of money will be enough. It is not, but to his surprise Mr. Goldman was looking for a young boy who knew Shakespeare. Holling is perfect for that and lands the role along with the amount of cream puffs he needs to meet the needs of the whole class and even two extras. His spirits are the next day, but quickly fall after his hard work payed for in cream puffs had been devoured by the notorious rats. In the end of the chapter Mrs. Baker spares Holling one more day before he is potentially killed by his classmates, by replacing the cream puffs with new ones. All seems better for Holling but wonders if there will always be someone who makes everything fine in the end. He starts to wonder if the writing of Shakespeare is exactly like reality, or if sometimes the quality of mercy is strained.
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For several weeks from September to October, Holling is forced to stay with Mrs. Baker to clean erasers, wipe down blackboards, and straighten the room while his classmates are at their religious classes. He knows he has to do it in order to ensure that his father will be happy with him. As Holling's chore list seems to grow, he is now tasked with the challenge of carrying up twelve trays of cream puffs to the seventh grade classroom. After he has done this, he willingly cleans all of the teachers erasers outside. Trying not to show and defeat he does clean them, but while he is in the process of doing so, he gets chalk all over the cream puffs. This is bad considering they are not for the class, but for a more picky group of women. Holding only gets in more trouble when he is forced to clean out the cage where Mrs. Baker keeps her too rats. They get out and cause a lot of commotion. Holling is paranoid and continues with his feeling that Mrs. Baker hates his guts and that she is out to get him. Thats why when she forces him to read Shakespeare with him, he does not complain knowing it is probably what she wants. To holding's surprise, he enjoys the story and really has a new found appreciation for writing and the message behind it.
Holling HoodHood is a Presbyterian boy who lives smack in the middle of the south and north sides of town. His whole class is made up of jewish students and Catholic students. Holling is the only one is is neither of those religions, which leads him to spending his Wednesdays with his new teacher Mrs. Baker. Right off the bat, Holling was under the impression that she hated his guts. He had made a minor mistake involving his english and that really set him off to a bad start. He reached out to his family for support, but they were no help. He had to handle this on his own. He is very alert and is ready to catch mrs. Baker if she decides to pull a trick on him. Another obstacle in a smooth seventh grade year was the bully of the school, Doug. He was not even the biggest problem, it is his brother. On the first day he asks Holling to play soccer and it does not go well. Although, Holling expected to get crushed, he made a mistake and tripped the brother causing him to fly out of control. Of course, Holling is the one to blame, and it's not going too well so far.
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