On Tuesday we got to talk with author Sarah Shun-Lien Bynum and some of the aspects of her writing of “Ms. Hemple” and it was quite interesting. One question that was asked was about her characters, and if they related to the students? It is interesting that she did not draw from one of her students but from an array of all her students’ lives. The rest of her writings of Ms. Hemple she says she draws some of it from remembering her seventh grade teacher. This is pretty remarkable, because it points out how strange these characters are.
The reading she read from Mrs. Hemple was the chapter “Talent” which was quite strange. Mrs. Hemple is just a woman that has many deep issues in her life. The way she thinks of some of her students as being gay, or the one physics teacher being called the sexiest man of the year which goes beyond what one thinks of for a science person. This just makes the school seem even stranger that a school would pick a teacher to be in that category. It also seems like a gateway for inappropriate student-teacher relations. I did not particularly enjoy this chapter due to the fact that her views of her students where just utterly strange and just the miscellaneous details such as the bra strap lowering and pushing it back, just pushes the reader to really not like it because it does not make sense. And this is my take on the meeting of Sarah Bynum at least what I remembered.
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