The main lesson from The Wednesday
Wars, a coming-of-age story about tranformation, revolves around finding
friendship, love, and an expression of one's selfhood. The Wednesday wars are between
Mrs. Baker and Holling. She is disciplining him and tutoring him, but soon they begin to
mutually help each other and form a friendship that straddles the age and authority
differences.
As Holling goes through his transformation,
starting out as a isolated boy in middle school then becoming a boy with confident
self-expression in middle school, he reaches out to rescue his sisiter, thereby putting
an end to thier war against each other; he learns from Shakespeare important lessons on
life and being, thereby putting an end to his war against lessons; and he is mentored
and encouraged by the person responsible for his Wednesday wars, thereby putting an end
to his war against Mrs. Baker.
In the end,
Holling learns about and acquires friends as well as learning about and expressing love.
He even has a romance of own with Meryl Lee. Moreover, Holling learns to express talents
and intellectual abilities he finds within himself.
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