Describe the kind of school margie attended and what she dreamt of?
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Margie is the 11-year-old protagonist of the story and a friend of Tommy’s. The third-person-limited point of view is filtered through her childlike innocence and curiosity. Margie is a curious girl who is constantly asking questions and wanting to be around other people. This personality may account for her recent poor performance in her fact-based and passive geography lessons; Margie seems to crave an education that is interactive, engaging, and involved other people, but this vision is incompatible with her computerized and individualized model of education. In particular, she longs to be around other children her age—hence her constantly hanging around Tommy and dreaming of how fun it would have been to attend school with a whole neighborhood of children—but instead she’s forced to sit alone in the schoolroom in her house, day after day, watching a computer screen talk at her. Margie is also a highly imaginative child, as evidenced by her ability to picture historical scenes from Tommy’s old book about schools from many centuries ago. After reading through the ancient book and learning about the ways of the past, Margie loses herself in her imagination, envisioning what it would be like to be a student hundreds of years ago and dreaming of “the fun they had.”
Margie Quotes in The Fun They Had
The The Fun They Had quotes below are all either spoken by Margie or refer to Margie. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one: Technological Progress and Education Theme Icon). Note: all page numbers and citation info for the quotes below refer to the Houghton Mifflin edition of The Fun They Had published in 1989.