Silfee+Reading+Response+10

This part of the book was very disappointing. I was expecting her to come out of the school year loving the students even more than she did in the beginning of the book. However she seemed to really hate them! In fact, she said "I hate them." This really bothered me because I had the notion that she was really connecting with her students throughout the whole book and that she had really grown to love them. Also, this section of the book was not very exciting. In the other two parts of the book something exciting was happening all the time, but in this section almost nothing exciting or memorable happened. The only thing that really struck me as memorable was the fact that she hates her students in this part, but at the end of the book she puts some of their letters to the next class of students in her diary and it seems, again, as though she has some sort of stronger bond with them than most student-teacher relationships have.