"Gryphon" is a short story by Charles Baxter that was published in 1985. The first person point of view Baxter chose allows us to understand the story better. It also allows Tommy to portray his personal feelings toward his substitute teacher, Miss Ferenczi. The diction Baxter uses for Miss Ferenczi is rather interesting. Sometimes, when she talks to the children, she uses words that most forth grade children wouldn't understand. Our understanding of why Baxter chose …showed first 75 words of 1172 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1172 total…exist on the bottom of the ocean floor. Scientists can't study them because when they are taken into the air they explode. Both of these stories sound like fallacies, when in reality one is true and the other could be true. This goes to show that in all actuality the students really didn't know what to think. Therefore, this forced the students to come up with their own opinions and go through an overall change.