The View From Saturday Chapter 2 Summary

Chapter five of The View from Saturday starts off with Mrs. Laurencin, the principal of Epiphany Middle School, calling Mrs. Olinski up to her office. Mrs. Laurencin warns Mrs. Olinski that she must have an answer ready for any parents of high honor roll students that didn’t make the Academic Bowl team. After this conversation with Mrs. Laurencin, Mrs. Olinski makes efforts to think about how she should pick her Academic Bowl Team. Then, on a Saturday in late October, while grading social studies papers, Mrs. Olinski decides to appoint her team the way the president appointed his cabinet. Mrs. Olinski selected Noah Gershom immediately, and later chose Nadia Diamondstein and Ethan Potter. Despite the fact that Mrs. Olinski quickly picked three members of her team, Mrs. Olinski was vexed with who to pick as her last member. …show more content…
Olinski sometimes thought about choosing Hamilton Knapp, but something always made her think she could not pick him. Amidst all this decision making, Mrs. Olinski never thought of choosing Julian Singh. Here, Konigsburg uses an extended metaphor to describe Julian’s character, saying, “…Julian Singh was too far off the mainland. He was an island unto himself.” Then, on the day of the production, Annie, Mrs. Olinski realized that she could not ask Hamilton Knapp to be part of her Academic Bowl team, because he was mean and very rude. After the play, she drove to Sillington House with Noah, Nadia, Ethan, and Julian. There, she drank tea and talked to Margaret Draper. While drinking her tea, Mrs. Olinski felt something “lift” from her shoulders. Mrs. Olinski was not sure what it was, but she felt calm having experienced it. Afterwards, Mrs. Olinski realizes who the fourth member of her Academic Bowl team should be. Mrs. Olinski chooses Julian Singh. Then, the book continues into chapter six. Chapter six starts off back at Academic Bowl day. The commissioner tells Julian that posh and tip are not on his list of