Frindle By: Andrew Clements

In the story the event of Frindle becoming a word is important because a fifth grade boy decides he wants to make a word so he convinces everyone he knows to use the word Frindle instead of using the word pen. In the story this Frindle rant goes on and on until the word actually gets put in the dictionary. I chose this piece because I thought it would be interesting to read.

The author of this story is Andrew Clements. Well the story is written in third person so a different perspective of the story would be to write in in first person.

My guess is that the author is trying to show an example of change or something new and he does this by making someone make something new. And i guess that he is just telling or writing the story to entertain people. so this story does not have an argument at all.


The event of the boy in the story having everybody call a pen a Frindle leads to all of America using the word Frindle instead of the word pen and that leads to other countries using the word Frindle and that leads to the word Frindle going into the dictionary.

I guess the whole piece would change if instead of language arts being the main teacher have it be math and then I guess the main character would make up some crazy math equation right? So if the author decided to have it that way the story would be completely different wouldn't it.