The Cat Ate My Gymsuit by Paula Danziger

Her independence before this case, according to Marcy’s father, her parents The Lewis house change as a result of the Finney case? Marcy’s mom has found To Marcy and her friends? Do Marcy and Joel start dating? And how does life in Telling her that her place is in the house and not being political.

When Marcy’s mother decides to support Marcy on her decision to try and help Have a daughter who is so stupid and so fat? I’ll never get you married off.” Marcy’s dad is always saying mean things to her, like “Why do I have to Herĭad has a horrible temper, so he’s pretty much like a bomb, only easier to set Things are going really badly at her house as well. Gets them called to the principal’s office and suspended. Finney believes that thisĬountry does not truly “offer liberty and justice for all.” Marcy, Nancy, Joel,Īnd a bunch of other kids decide to protest Mr. She refused to say the Pledge of Allegiance. Marcy’s new friend Joel’s father is on the Board ofĮducation, so Joel is able to find out what has happened. That way, but as Nancy got to know Marcy a bit more, she really grew to like Made her talk to me: Beauty and the Blimp.” In the beginning, it started out Name “Nanci” instead of “Nancy,” and she also dots the i with a “big dumbĬircle.” To Marcy, the dot looks too much like a blimp. Nancy drives Marcy crazy whenever she writes her a note because she signs her With wire-frame glasses, mousy brown hair, and acne.” She really only has one friend. I’d grow out of it, but I was convinced that I’d become an adolescent blimp “ All my life I’ve thought that I looked like a babyīlimp with wire-frame glasses and mousy brown hair. Self-confidence mostly because of her weight: Is a shy, go-along-with-the-crowd person, and doesn’t have a lot of The book is inįirst-person point-of-view, and Marcy is the narrator and the protagonist.

Gymsuit is a 13-year-old girl named Marcy Lewis. Finney and the values she stands for is worth the price she must pay at home and in school.The main character of Paula Danziger’s The Cat Ate My With her mother firmly on her side, her father violently opposed, Marcy mus decide whether her fight for Ms. When Marcy, now out of her shell, helps to organize a protest, she too is suspended. Finney is suspended because of her controversial teaching methods, the school is thrown into an uproar. Marcy has never met anyone like her, and suddenly life in and out of school begins to have a purpose. Finney, an English teacher who will try anything in the classroom, and above all, a teacher who acts human. Life at home isn't great either, since her father bosses her and her mother around. Marcy Lewis is bored by school, she despairs of ever being thin, and she is certain she'll never have a date.

The Cat Ate My Gymsuit by Paula Danziger