THE WRONG LUNCH LINE

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SETTING

• The setting of the story is in "Early Spring, 1946" (page 32).
• The girls are first in the lunchroom at their school
• Later on, Yvette is in Mrs. Ralston's office
• They meet in the street for Mildred to invite Yvette over
• The girls laugh about Mrs. Ralston at Mildred's house

ATMOSPHERE

• The atmosphere is very tense and scary for the girls
• Yvette is embarrassed after the teachers catch her and the other students are making fun of her
• "Yvette could feel her face getting hot and flushed (pg.36)
• When Yvette is at Mildred's house they start to make fun of Mrs. Ralston
• "dop... dopey... M... Mi... Mrs. Ra..Ral...ston...."(pg. 39)

POINT OF VIEW

• The story is in third person
• This means the author uses he, she, and they
• Mildred is very open minded-she doesn't mind when others pester her about her religion
• Yvette is also outgong, she doesn't care that Mildred is Jewish and plays with her anyways
• Third person helps you understand what both characters are feeling

CHARACTER DEVELOPMENT

• Both girls are nervous about what they are going to do at first
• Later the girls know that they are right and that the teacher is wrong
• The teacher is segregating students
• They are still too nervous to talk about it

CHARACTER…CONTINUED

• The girls laugh at the teachers because they know that they are right
• They are being pregious about christians by not letting them have another type of cuture's food

Symbol

• The symbol is the special lunch
• This helps understand the segregation in the school
• It also symbolizes the conflict between the teacher and student
• Since the Yvette and the teachers were fighting over the lunch, it is the symbol
• It helps explain the conflict and theme

Plot

• In the beginning, Yvette and Mildred are waiting on the lunch line
• This is the rising action
• The climax is when the teacher catches Yvette and reprimands her
• The conflict is person vs. person, teacher vs. student.
• The resolution is when the girls laugh about the teachers being wrong

IRONY

• It is unexpected how the teachers are pregidous about the Christians after World War II
• It is also unexpected how the girls laugh about how the teachers are wrong

AUTHORS BACKROUND

• Nicholasa Mohr is very similar to Yvette
• She, like Yvette, is also poor
• She also had many siblings
• She probably wrote this story about a former childhood situation
• Nicholasa's father died when she was eight leaving her mother with seven children

BACKROUND OF THE STORY

• This story happens near the time of when the Holocaust ended
• People are clamoring to make the Jews part of the community