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Mr. Goldman
Mrs. Baker's husband, Lieutenant Tybalt Baker, is a soldier with the 101st Airborne Division fighting in Vietnam. When his airplane goes down, Lieutenant Baker is missing for months, but he is found and rescued in June and comes home at the end of the novel. His telegram to Mrs. Baker shows that he's a romantic and a poet. He bought Mrs. Baker the pet rats Sycorax and Caliban as a gift when they were still cute babies.
Lieutenant Tybalt Baker Quotes in The Wednesday Wars
The The Wednesday Wars quotes below are all either spoken by Lieutenant Tybalt Baker or refer to Lieutenant Tybalt Baker. 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:
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It also didn't help that Mrs. Baker kept wiping at her eyes during her grading. She'd told us that she had a terrible cold, but she hardly needed to tell us. Her eyes were mostly red all the time, and the way she blew her nose could be pretty impressive. Sometimes while sitting at her desk, she'd just stop doing whatever she was doing and look somewhere far away, like she wasn't even in the classroom anymore.
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Lieutenant Tybalt Baker Quotes in The Wednesday Wars
The The Wednesday Wars quotes below are all either spoken by Lieutenant Tybalt Baker or refer to Lieutenant Tybalt Baker. 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:
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March
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It also didn't help that Mrs. Baker kept wiping at her eyes during her grading. She'd told us that she had a terrible cold, but she hardly needed to tell us. Her eyes were mostly red all the time, and the way she blew her nose could be pretty impressive. Sometimes while sitting at her desk, she'd just stop doing whatever she was doing and look somewhere far away, like she wasn't even in the classroom anymore.
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