Answer:In "January" of Gary Schmidt's The Wednesday Wars, one thing Mrs. Baker knows that Holling doesn't is Shakespeare is using Macbeth to say "something about what it means to be a human being." One of Mrs. Baker's most important statements of what Shakespeare is trying to teach, a statement that shapes the major theme of the chapter, is the following: ... And that compared with love, malice is a small and petty thing. ("January") At first Holling disagrees with her. He fails to see how malice, meaning the urge to intentionally hurt someone, can be such a "petty thing" since he has just been publicly humiliated by Doug Swieteck's brother, who plastered the town.
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