![]() To get the full understanding of history, you need to listen to as many different voices as possible.”Ĭaitlyn has a fascinating Humanities teacher, Miss Magruder – Mags – who teaches them all things Roman and Greek, and ends up showing how many classical ideas still permeate our lives. It always depends on who does the telling. ![]() “Hero dotus showed that our understanding of history is never objective truth. Ali Benjamin’s technique is to tell this tale through a variety of first person interviews, scripted vignettes, text and email conversations, and first person memoir accounts from Caitlyn. ![]() Her class creates a faux reality TV contest to see who can become “the next great Paulie Fink’’ and Caitlyn is the emcee. Yet Caitlyn steps up to the new role cast upon her. (Everyone still talks about his elaborate “science project” banana peel caper.) She’s replacing a legend – the actual Paulie Fink – a notorious prankster at her school who was really the straw that stirred the drink for his 7 th grade classmates. But it takes moving from New York to Vermont and going to a quirky new school to figure that out. That’s what Caitlyn ultimately concludes about her new school. This, right here, is all history ever has been: regular people living their regular lives, making things up as they go, hoping they get it right.” ![]()
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