59 pages • 1 hour read
Ali BenjaminThe Next Great Paulie Fink
Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2019A modern alternative to SparkNotes and CliffsNotes, SuperSummary offers high-quality Study Guides with detailed chapter summaries and analysis of major themes, characters, and more.
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Part 4: “The Search for the Next Great Paulie Fink”
Part 4, Chapter 25 Summary: “Boxed Into a Corner”
The Originals point Caitlyn to “BoxMan,” Paulie’s only digital footprint, so that she can better understand him. “BoxMan” contains pictures of him with a cardboard box on his head with puns as captions. Caitlyn doesn’t get it and feels she’s “boxed” herself into a corner.
In an interview with Diego, he explains that Paulie was great with Minis; he led the Minis safely to base in a game of tag/hide-and-seek with a whooping call, an episode known as “Mini-geddon.”
In an interview with Mr. Farabi, he recalls accidentally allowing Paulie to conduct an experiment with banana peels. Paulie framed the project as “the effect of decomposition on the exocarp of Musa acuminate […] on human peregrination” (158)—in other words, the effect of banana peels on humans walking.
In an interview with Diego and Fiona, they talk about the fruit flies that populated the school within a week of Paulie hiding banana peels all over school.
In an interview with Gabby and Yumi, they recall how Glebus was “furious” about the fruit flies, while Mags told Paulie he was a “Shakespearean Fool.” Gabby likened the fool to a disruptor. Paulie spent a whole day talking like he was a Shakespearean character.
