Gain The Cat Ate My Gymsuit Author Paula Danziger Rendered As Print

Lewis is a schoolgirl in America during a time of great political changes, including a latent feminist movement and shifts in the teachings in public education.
Overweight, awkward and ashamed of her looks, Marcy has to endure cruel criticisms from her verbally abusive father, while her little brother and timid mother have longsince learned to accept that this is just the way things are.
Marcy's only friend is Nancy, a fellow student whom is suspected to have been thrown next to Marcy out of pity, and much of Marcy's time is spent studying and coming up with increasingly elaborate, wild excuses for getting out of gym class.


Everything changes when Marcy and her fellow classmates are assigned a new English teacher, an eccentric, welleducated and radically liberal woman named Ms, Finney. Ms. Finney is cool. She sometimes mistakes the chalk in her hand for a joint to smoke, she encourages the class to think outside the box, and she starts an afterschool group where Marcy finally feels like she belongs.
She befriends a nonconformist boy named Joel, and she gets closer to Nancy, . . but when Ms. Finney gets suspended for refusing to stand for the National Anthem, Marcy has to decide whether or not it's time to take a stand,

Whether one is leftleaning or rightleaning or somewhere in between in political views doesn't matter here, The Cat Ate My Gymsuit is much more about an insecure girl finding her place in life, developing her voice, and learning about who she is as a person.
This book has a few issues that objectively are problematic, including some grammatical issues that seem odd for a book from a trad publisher missing commas, periods in place of question marks, etc.
, and some rather blackandwhite portrayals of the stuffy old establishment vs, the hip new leftists. Of course, these are minor complaints at most, This book ends on an ambiguous, bittersweet note about the actual power and capacity that schoolteachers really have, and how vitally important it is for students to receive a decent education where their opinions are valued and explored.
Points about censorship, misogyny, fatshaming and romance are all far ahead of their time, making for a book that's still sociallyrelevant even today, The Cat Ate My Gymsuit was a favourite of mine in the's, when I was in elementary school, because it's such a timeless contemporary classic.
The cat ate my gymsuit,
Marcy hates everything until she gets a new english teacher that makes everything a little less awful that is until she gets suspended, The kids ban together to try and get their favorite teacher back,
This was cute and fast and fun,

“ Yesterday I looked in the mirror and saw a pimple its name is Agnes” Perkenalkan, namaku Marcy Lewis, Aku gemuk dan berjerawat. Canggung dan mudah gugup. Sekolahku mengerikan. Aku tahu temanteman tertawa di belakangku, Keadaan di rumah lebih buruk, Ayah menganggapku tidak berarti, dan seringkali bertengkar dengan ibu, Singkatnya, aku punya banyak masalah!

saya:
Ini buku bagus yang pernah saya baca, Tentang common problem gadis ABG, Yang kehilangan rasa percaya diri garagara bertubuh gemuk dan berjerawat, Marcy merasa dia adalah orang dengan masalah paling buruk di dunia, Selain dengan kondisi tubuhnya yang gemuk, yang membuatnya minder, ayahnya seringkali membentaknya, Karena ayahnya merasa telah bekerja keras, menganggap Marcy tidak berguna karena tubuhnya yang gemuk, dan lainnya, Rumahnya selalu dihiasi dengan teriakan sang ayah :

Di sekolah, keadaannya juga tidak bagus, Guruguru datang dan pergi. Sampai akhirnya, Ms. Barbara Finney datang. Semula, Marcy mengira, gurunya hanya akan bertahan beberapa hari saja, Namun ternyata, seisi kelas, bahkan anakanak kelas lain, sangat menyukai Ms, Finney. Metode pengajaran yang dilakukannya, membuat Mercy mulai memiliki rasa percaya diri yang baik, Temantemannya juga begitu.

Sayangnya, Kepala Sekolah tidak sependapat, sehingga Ms, Finney dipecat. Keadaan ini membuat semua murid malah semakin kompak, begitu juga dengan orangtua mereka, Tentu saja, ada yang pro dan ada yang kontra, Dan ketika berusaha membela Ms, Finney, Marcy justru menjadi sangat dekat dengan Joel, yang sama sekali tidak peduli dengan tubuh gemuk Marcy,

Buku ini positif buat dihadiahkan ke cewekcewek yang bermasalah dengan rasa percaya diri, Bintangbuat buku ini. Hehe Marcy's life is a mess, Her parents don't understand her, she feels like a fat blimp with no friends,

and her favorite teacher just got fired, Ms. Finney wasn't like the other teachers, and she was helping Marcy feel good about being herself,
Now that she's gone, Marcy doesn't know what to do, She's always thought things would be better if she could just lose weight, but the loss of Ms, Finney sparks something inside her, She decides to join the fight to bring back her teacher, and in doing so, she discovers that her voice might matter more than she ever realized.
This was Danziger's first novel, and it shows, The moral is heavyhanded, the dialogue and narrative text are trite, and the only flashes of wit are in Marcy's excuses to her gym teacher the title of the book is one such excuse.


The fundamental problem with the book is that it talks down to its audience, Marcy is ostensibly thirteen years old, but her narration reads as though she's about eight, Even in, highschool kids would never talk about political issues this wayhell, this was a year after the abolition of the draft, and the class of 'was the first in a generation where the male students could breathe freely.
The book is preachy, disconnected from reality, and shallow, If Danziger hadn't discovered her comic talents, this might have been the end of her career,

For a much better view of children dealing with adult concerns, read sitelinkBridge to Terabithia, The protagonists in that story aren't even ten yet, but they know more about life than Marcy could hope to grasp, Aku benci ayahku. Aku benci sekolah. Aku benci tubuh gemukku. Aku benci Kepala Sekolah karena ia ingin memecat Ms, Finney, guru bahasa inggrisku.

Membaca kalimat pertama itu, aku mengira Marcy ini tentu orang yang sering mengeluh, tidak puas dengan apapun, penyendiri dan mungkin pemarah, .

Setelah meneruskan membaca terbukti semua yg kukira di awal ternyata banyak yg salah, .
Mercy memang penyendiri, tapi dia bukan pemarah, dia pemalu, . Dia malu akan kegemukan tubuhnya, dia malu jika muncul jerawat di wajahnya, dia malu berbicara dengan temanteman sekelasnya, .
Mercy memang penyendiri, tapi mungkin semua itu sebuah akibat dari apa yang terjadi di rumahnya, Ayahnya sering berteriak, Ibunya sering menangis, setiap adiknya membuat masalah Mercy selalu disalahkan, semua hal di diri Mercy seperti tidak ada arti dimata ayahnya, .

"Aku tidak peduli jika kau dapat nilainilai bagus, karena kau konyol, Mengapa aku harus punya anak perempuan yang konyol dan gemuk aku tidak akan pernah menemukan orang yang mau menikahimu, "

Lihat apa yang telah kau lakukan, Kami tak pernah bertengkar kecuali garagara dirimu, Minta maaf!"

kalimatkalimat seperti itulah yang sering diteriakkan ayahnya pada Mercy, . Dan karena percaya dia memang gemuk, konyol, dan menyebalkan, Mercy lebih suka menyendiri, . Bahkan dia berpikir, Nancy, satusatunya teman yg dimilikinya mau berteman dengannya cuma karena ibu mereka berteman, .

Keminderan Mercy mulai berkurang seiring kedatangan Ms, Finney, guru bahasa inggris yang baru di sekolahnya, . Pendekatan Ms Finney yang lebih menekankan pada komunikasi sesama manusia sepertinya membuat Mercy dan temanteman sekelasnya dapat mengenal lebih baik diri mereka, .
Mercy akhirnya mulai keluar dari cangkangnya, . Dia mulai bisa mengobrol santai denggan temantemannya, Bahkan Joel mengajaknya datang bersama ke pesta Nancy, .
Tapi kesenangan Mercy dan temantemannya memiliki guru seperti Ms, Finney tidak bertahan lama. Kepala sekolah dan beberapa orang tua murid menganggap Ms, Finney berpengaruh buruk karena pakaian yg dikenakannya dan penolakannya untuk mengucapkan sitelinkIkrar Kesetiaan Pledge of Allegiance pada negara dan akan di pecat, . Maka Mercy, Joel, Nancy dan temanteman yg lain berusaha menggagalkan rencana itu, . .

Ini pertama kali saya membaca buku karangan sitelinkPaula Danziger, Menurutnya ini adalah semacam autobiografi yg ditulisnya di awal tahunan, . Hebatnya aku ga ngerasa ini buku cerita terbitan jaman dulu, . bahkan baru tau pas sudah selesai dan baca catatan penulis di bagian belakang, .
Pengen deh baca lanjutannya sitelinkThere's a Bat In Bunk Five tapi musti cari edisi asli nih, ga ada terjemahannya kayaknya, .


Sebenarnya aku beli buku ini karena mengira ini buku anak, . . yah usia sesd gitu laah, . . ternyata cerita anak ABG, yg tahun depan mo masuk SMA :
Tapi biar begitu ga nyesel kok, . karena aku suka ceritanya : Historical context is paramount for full enjoyment of this adorably dated book was a fun read, While I think kids might have some trouble with casual references to recreation rooms, records, women's liberation and push button phones, The real issue is Marcy's parents, Without understanding the era in which this story was published midseventiesthey come off as a cartoonish villian and victim, The rampant McCarthyism and casual mysogny of Marcy's father as he chomps on a cigar while downing scotch and sodas seemed so fabricated as to be unbelieveable althought I am actuely aware that it was not that long ago that his behavior was considered acceptable if not the norm.
A great book about kids learning to stand up for what themselves, those they care about and what they believe in, This book will always have a special place in my heart, I was twelve when I read it and completely identified with the main character and her struggles, I also loved the teacher in the story, who helped inspire me to be a teacher at least for a little while, I still recommend this book to preteens and teens who feel they just don't fit in,.stars

I remember reading this book when I was about fourteen but the details about the plot were kind of hazy in my memory, so I decided to do a reread.
I do remember enjoying it then and enjoyed again as well,

Marcy Lewis is in junior high and is not a fan of school, At home, her father constantly criticizes her and her mother, Marcy has low selfesteem about her physical appearance she thinks she looks like a blimp and doesn't have many friends, Things start to look up when Marcy's class is assigned a new English teacher, Miss Finney, Unlike other teachers, Miss Finney seems to care what her students think and feel, She assigns fun projects, orders books her students want to read, and encourages class discussions, Marcy soon finds herself looking forward to school and begins to open up to other students in the class, When Miss Finney is suddenly replaced with a substitute, Marcy and her classmates are upset and surprised, This leads Marcy and other students to begin to look into how they can help their favorite teacher,

This book was published in the midseventies but aside from a few references to the era records, pushbutton phones, this story and Marcy's situation can be related to the present as well.
Readers may identify with Marcy's home situation as well as her struggles with accepting who she is, The writing is pretty straight forward and to the point, nothing too complication, Paula Danziger's writing style always reminded me of Judy Blume's style, It's very similar and basic to how kids/teens talk, While this book is pretty simple, it's a classic example of how students can start to accept who they are and stand up for what they believe in.
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