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a lonely and rather tragic character: when the class present him with a new briefcase with the initials "M.P." on it as a birthday present, he is at first puzzled since his first name does not begin with M; then realizes that the letters stand for "Mr
Parkhill" and that he cannot remember the last time anyone addressed him by his first name.
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is the point-of-view character in the stories, a staid, kind-hearted, mild-mannered teacher with a tendency to think of his pupils in terms of classical literature. Mr
Parkhill is rigorously fair-minded, often to his own detriment when faced with Mr Kaplan's very individual brand of logic. He is also
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Mr Kaplan usually signs his name in colored crayon with green stars between red letters outlined in blue. In the last story of all, "Mr K*A*P*L*A*N the
Eumoirous", he signs a note to his teacher simply "Hyman Kaplan", but addresses it to "Mr P*A*R*K*H*I*L*L". Mr Parkhill wonders if he will ever again
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Mr Kaplan is an immigrant and a pupil at a New York night class in
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American history, and he frequently gets into noisy disagreements with other class members.
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of the beginners' grade", a large, lugubrious middle-aged lady who is baffled by the
English language and spends much of the time asleep, waking only to punctuate a particularly intimidating fact with a despairing exclamation of
173:(in the second book; renamed Olansky in the combined version), both of whom are better than Mr Kaplan at grasping the rules of English, but who somehow end up on the losing side of the arguments that erupt between them.
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