Miss Awful by Arthur Cavenaugh is a about a young, playful, carefree boy named Roger and his third grade class. They have a substitute teacher who is insanely strict and makes everyone hate her and be annoyed by her since she gives so much homework. Roger dubs her Miss Awful and all of the students, including the parents don’t like her since she insults the kids so much. On her last day the kids become rebellious and want to take revenge and she loses hope and becomes miserable thinking that she failed to teach even one student, but Roger understanding this spells out a few words to show her that she didn’t waste her time with the class.
The teacher whose actual name is Miss Orville was evicted from her home and all of her plants except for one were taken away. So when her last plant was destroyed by the children she gave up and stopped caring until Roger showed that she hadn’t completely failed. Miss Orville installed a kind of tough love strict kind of style to help her students learn more since the other laidback teacher wasn’t teaching them much.
Roger changed over the course of the story from being a young, carefree playful, boy as well as being a bit dense. Roger at first hates her for being so strict but he is better for it he becomes smarter, more mature, and is better overall from his teacher. Roger in the end figures out that Miss Orville actually is being good for him and that since she is so strict he learns more than he ever has.
In conclusion Roger changes a lot throughout the story and becomes a better person overall. Roger becomes smarter more mature and becomes less playful and carefree. Miss Orville gives up until Roger understands what’s happening and cheers her up.