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abuses his students in an obvious attempt to destroy their self-esteem.
W hen the students try to teach him a lesson, they accidentally kill him.
Mr. Auster, the AP teacher-protagonist in Blue Car, assuages his
personal grief over the death o f a son and problems with his drunken
wife by sexually exploiting a female Student who evidences some poetic
talent and whose own life is full o f heartache and tragedy.
John Trimbur hints at the nature o f the change reflected in the
film s’ trajectory. In his musings on changes that have taken place in the
composition classroom, a specifically Engl