These changes include her shift from an individual who loved reading to one who loathed it. In so doing, Trisha’s brother alludes to the changes that are about to befall his sister.

At the beginning of the novel, Trisha’s brother says “‘in first grade, you’ll learn to read,’” (Thank You, Mr. I feel as though this is the case because Heralds “announce the coming of significant change,” (Vogler 55). I found it difficult to place the story’s Herald, but after some deliberation, have determined that the Herald is Trisha’s older brother. At the end of the novel, she overcomes her dyslexia and learns how to read with her Mentor’s help. This is due to the fact that Trisha struggled to learn how to read and solve mathematical equations because of her undiagnosed dyslexia while her classmates did not. Finally, Trisha is the story’s Hero because she is “distinct from” the rest of the character’s in Polacco’s novel, (Vogler 29). Plessy, “a reading teacher,” and the pair worked together in order to teach Trisha how to read, (Thank You, Mr. Falker realized that she didn’t “‘see letters or numbers the way other people do,’” and that Trisha would have to be taught differently than his other students, (Thank You, Mr. Trisha started to hate school because no matter how hard she tried, she couldn’t figure out how to read. When she was being taught at school, Trisha would “loo at the page… wiggling shapes, and when she tried to sound out words, the other kids laughed at her,” (Thank You, Mr. At the beginning of the novel, Trisha couldn’t read because no one had taken the time to teach her. Second, Trisha is the Hero because she “learns or grows the most in the course of the story,” (Vogler 31). Falker, being a story about how Trisha overcomes dyslexia, could not exist without her presence. Trisha is present in each of the novel’s major scenes and the novel’s progression is guided by both her experience and her will. First, she is “the most active person in the script,” (Vogler 31). Trisha may be characterized as the story’s Hero for several different reasons. The Hero in Patricia Polacco’s children’s book entitled Thank You, Mr.

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