Of This Time, of That Place

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Of This Time, Of That place


The story Of This Time, Of That Place, has many different conflicts. The main conflict is between Joseph Howe and a student named Tertan. Joseph Howe was going to his firs day of class. As he entered the classroom all of the students looked at him appraisingly. This gave Dr. Howe a sense of power. Dr. Howe quickly issued an assignment. As the class is working on the assignment, in comes Tertan. The class gave him a mocking cheer. Both Dr. Howe and Tertan ignored the class. Dr. Howe feels nervous and cracks some jokes he is handling the pressure of school; a true sign of a hero. At the end of class Tertan stood up and said that some professors were pedants and some professors are free souls. While grading the assignments, Dr. Howe sees that Tertans paper is extremely advanced and feels a little bit intimidated by it. Dr. Howe pointed out a few flaws but the paper was still good. Dr. Howe had a feeling that Tertan
was a little bit out of the ordinary. After Dr. Howe got home he read an essay called “Two Poets” by Frederic Woolley in which Woolley made unfavorable comments about him. After a while Dr. Howe forgot about the incident and his classes became more like groups. A week after class Tertan went to visit Dr. Howe. They talked about Tertans last two papers. Tertan than pulled out a copy of the essay “Two Poets”. Tertan told Dr. Howe that he did his papers from what he learned from reading the essay. Teratan then suddenly left the room. Dr. Howe was making an attempt to better understand Tertan. In walks in Blackburn, vise president of the student council. Blackburn told Dr. Howe that he was once English major and would like to take his class, even though the semester had already began. When speaking with Dr. Howe, Blackburn tried to sound intelligent but made some errors, which Dr. Howe had pointed out. In class Tertan was called upon and began to speak and everyone one in the c...