PRESENTATION OUTLINE
"AT LUNCHTIME, I WAS AFRAID TO GO OUT FOR RECESS, SINCE I FIGURED THAT MRS. BAKER HAD PROBABLY RECRUTED AN EIGHTH GRADER TO DO SOMETHING AWFUL TO ME." (SCHMIDT 6).
"IT WAS AS IF MRS. BAKER HAD SUDDENLY BECOME NOT MRS. BAKER. IT WAS LIKE I HAD HAD ANOTHER VISION, ONLY THIS ONE WAS REAL." (SCHMIDT 32).
"AND SOMETIMES THE QUALITY OF MERCY IS STRAINED." (SCHMIDT 72).
"Joe Pepitone and Horace Clarke were waiting for us in the bleachers...The two greatest players to put on Yankee pinstripes since Babe Ruth." (Schmidt 98).
"Whatever it means to be a friend, taking a black eye for someone has to be in it." (Schmidt 103).
"When we picked up the telegram, Meryl Lee and I could hardly not read it ourselves. Or at least the words that mattered: DOWNED HELICOPTER TRANSPORT STOP KHESANH STOP LT T BAKER MISSING IN ACTION STOP" (Schmidt 155).
"And when Mrs. Bigio got to Mai Thi, she stopped, and lifted a plate down onto her desk, and said, "I am so sorry, Mai Thi. I am so sorry." (Schmidt 183).
"But I sure could feel it when she leaned close and...Well, I don't have to tell you everything." (Schmidt 207).
"SWEET EYES STOP"
(Schmidt 236).
"Because let me tell you, it was a happy ending." (Schmidt 264).