"Bee Season" by Myla Goldberg

Eliza Naumne the central character in the novel "Bee Season", by Myla Goldberg is an eight year old girl that goes though an extensive growing period though-out the course of the novel. The reader is given insight on her development through the narrative of third person omniscient. She starts the novel as an average child and becomes a champion speller, hence the title "bee season". Eliza starts the novel as 'nothing' and ends as 'something'. Eliza Naumann develops mentally through-out the course of the novel.
<Tab/><Tab/><Tab/>Eliza goes though an extensive growth period though out the novel, she starts the novel as an average child. Eliza is in the remedial class at McKinley elementary school, "which everyone knows all the unimpressive fifth graders are put."(1). Eliza thinks she is a mediocre child, yet generally children placed in those classes don't think about the fact they are mediocre. The reader is therefore positioned to view Eliza as an intelligent child.…