Sara’s grandmother comes into her room when she hears Sara and her friends trying to learn how to dance The Twist and joins in with them. Sara decides that she will go home after school with her friends and look up The Twist. Harvey clears up the confusion Dwight causes by saying that The Twist is from the Spiderman 3 Soundtrack. When she does she overhears Dwight/Yoda tell the group to learn a dance called The Twist. Sara decides to sit close to Tommy’s table one day. The focus switches to Sara, Tommy’s love interest, as she enters into the story. Mike is so busy trying to understand Yoda’s advice that he doesn’t cry when he strikes out again in softball. Yoda/Dwight’s advice to him is that others are just better at softball and that he shouldn’t let that get to him. However, Mike mostly cries when he plays softball because he isn’t any good. Mike cries all of the time and because of this is made fun of.

When Kellen asks Dwight/Yoda for advice, Yoda tells him to completely soak his pants so no one can say that he’s peed his pants, this way it buys him time until he can changed into his sweatpants in gym class.

Kellen spills water on his pants, making it look like he peed himself. The next people Dwight/Yoda helps are Kellen and Mike. Tommy can’t believe that Yoda/ Dwight actually gave him some good advice. The group ridicules Dwight and his weirdness until Sara’s gigantic boyfriend arrives beside Sara. Tommy shrugs Dwight off, as Dwight is weird, but the boy keeps pestering him until he breaks down and asks the puppet for advice.ĭwight, acting as Yoda, tells Tommy to wait. As Tommy heads over to her Dwight pops up with an Origami Yoda puppet and advises Tommy to ask it for advice. Even though Tommy likes Sara he decides to give asking Hannah to dance a try. The boys all talk Tommy into asking a popular girl, Hannah, to dance but in reality Tommy likes a girl named Sara. When Dwight is shot down he returns back to the stage to Tommy’s group. Dwight lays down on the floor and mops the drink up with his body before asking her to dance. Dwight ends up bumping into a popular girl, causing her to spill her drink, and the narrator talks about how everything Dwight does after this point is even more embarrassing.

Dwight is the outcast of the outcasts and sits with the group too. Tommy, Kellen, Harvey, Lance, Mike, and Quavondo stay by the stage and off the dance floor since they don’t have anyone to dance with. The first chapter is a background summary for the book.ĭuring the PTA Meeting Fun Night, Tommy and his friends sit by the stage and it’s apparent that they are the shy social outcasts. Tommy tells the reader that Dwight is the social pariah of the school. The Origami Yoda was made by a child named Dwight who is weird and off putting but manages to give good advice through Yoda. The Strange Case of Origami Yoda by Tom Angleberger, starts out with a quick excerpt by the protagonist, Tommy, explaining about Origami Yoda.

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