The View From Saturday Chapter Summary

Chapter three of The View from Saturday starts off with E.L. Konigsburg telling the reader about Mrs. Olinski’s first teaching job. At that school, all the students followed the school’s rules and behaved courteously. The principal of that school, Margaret Draper, stayed in touch with Mrs. Olinski. This allowed Mrs. Olinski to know about Margaret Draper’s marriage to Izzy Diamondstein, Margaret’s move to Century Village, Florida, and Margaret’s interest in sea turtles. Mrs. Olinski also knew about Margaret’s grandson, Ethan Potter. Then, flashing forward, Konigsburg takes the reader to the finals of the Academic Bowl. There, the commissioner of education of New York has started to read the next question, “The following places in New York State …show more content…
Julian hands Ethan a ten dollar bill that has a post-it note stuck to it. Ethan pockets the bill, and when Ethan gets home, he reads the post-it. The post-it says, “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland Chapter VII Title.” Ethan opens up his copy of the book and finds that chapter seven is titled “A Mad Tea Party”. Ethan realizes that this was an invitation, but he did not know the time and place of the tea party. After school, the next day, Ethan finds a post-it note on his backpack. This one says, “Tea Time is always 4:00 P.M. World Atlas Map 4: D-16”. After some research, Ethan realizes that the tea party is at Sillington House. On Saturday, Ethan buys a present, a puzzle, for Julian and arrives at the party. There, he finds Nadia Diamondstein and Noah Gershom. After they all drink tea and work on the puzzle that Ethan gave to Julian. The next Saturday, they all went to tea again and just happened to end up peeling wallpaper off the walls of Sillingon House. Noah makes this a contest to see who can peel off the longest strip. Nadia wins and later gets to decide what the name for the four of them will be. Nadia names them ‘The