Miss Awful

Dealing with changes is not easy. The stories, “Miss Awful” by Isaac Asimov and “The Fun They Had” by Arthur Cavanaugh both relate to school in some way. In “Miss Awful” and “The Fun They Had” Roger and Margie have to deal with or learn about distinct ways of teaching at different settings and learn different lessons . The characters grapple with the new information in their own ways. First , the main characters experience and learn about a difference in the way they are taught. In “ Miss Awful” , Roger has to learn about his substitute teacher, Ms.Orville and way she teaches which was a drastic difference from the nice and non-strict way his normal teacher teaches. In the text, the author says, “‘ Who’s got time for sodas?’ he bleated. ‘ I have homework to do . Punishment homework. Ten words, ten times each. On account of the witch’s spelling test.’” This shows how Roger had to learn and adapt to the way Ms. Orville had taught the students. In “ The Fun They Had”, Margie learns about how people were taught differently than having a mechanical teacher come to their house to teach them . In the text, the author says, “ She was thinking about the old schools they had when her grandfather’s
In “Miss Awful” the theme is to not judge a person without knowing how they really are. In “Miss Awful” all the students had thought that Miss Orville was mean because of the way she disciplined them, but they never realized who she really was and made her cry when they broke her plant. This shows how the judged her right away without knowing her. The theme in “The Fun They Had” is that things are different than they were in the past. This is because Margie had to stay at home and learned from a robot when in the past her grandfather actually could learn from human teachers and went to school. This shows the difference between Margie’s time and the past. Both stories are centered around school but have different