Compare And Contrast Holling's Relationship With Mrs. Baker
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Clearly, Holling’s relationship with Mrs. Baker proves evident change in Holling’s personality at the start of the school year. While attending one of his afternoon sessions with Mrs. Baker, Shakespeare is brought to the attention of Holling, when his first reading of The Merchant of Venice occurs. Holling is anxious that Mrs. Baker was “plotting” against him, and searching for new ways to cause him great misery. Anterior to the reading, Holling asserts, “Reading Shakespeare. Of all the strategies Mrs. Baker could come up with, this must be the worst. Teachers bring up Shakespeare only to bore students to death. And I was going to be bored to death for eight months. No human being could stand it” (40). However, subsequent to the reading, Holling