David asks how she knew his phone number and called him a Greek poet, when Tori had called him a Greek poet that same day, and Rodger never said his last name. Tori started laughing. Tori's aunt is Mrs. Felicia Bayfield. The talk for a long time together and all the unknown pieces were unraveled. David realized that really had unzipped his fly on purpose, he had purposely let the ball break the window because he had a warm heart unlike Scott, Rodger, and Randy. David was now happy, he knew that nothing bad would happen now. Little did he know that his face would be hanging on the Bayfield wall. After 150 years… “Willy's here. The drooble!” said Harley. His buddies laugh. Willy is the drooble of his class. He walked into the Bayfield room. There was no school tomorrow because it was David Ballinger's birthday. He looked at the face of David on the Bayfield wall. “I wish I could be more like you”, Willy said.
There is a lot of conflict in this story. Most of the conflict is between the stooges and the cool boys. Glen is in Ricky's class and he talks about the stooges. Then Ricky knows how weird his brother is and there is conflict between him and his brother. A problem that occurs is that David has to return the cane to Mrs. Bayfield. This leads to a fight between the cool kids and the stooges as explained in the plot.
The stooges fight against the cool kids to retrieve the cane; they win the fight and return to the Bayfield Estate. Mrs. Bayfield is not a witch. There was no curse at all. David was just the one with a warm heart. Everything that had happened to him all happened because his sub-conscience wanted it to happen. He purposely didn't zip his fly, he purposely let the ball break the window, and he purposely made his pants loose so that they would fall down. Mrs. Bayfield was Tori's aunt. That is why David's phone number was written on a chit on the table. That is why both Tori and Mrs. Bayfield said that David looked like a Greek poet. Mrs. Bayfield is an artist, who is actually famous and that is why there are faces on the wall. David thought his face was going to be removed from him. He didn't know that his face was going to be on the wall because she was going to paint it.
I liked the book because it was realistic fiction. It explained the concept of life as an unpopular kid, or in this case a stooge. I also disliked some aspects of the book. It wasn't as age-appropriate as I thought is would be.
Themes of the occult and youthful sexuality are explored in the novel, and its resulting suppression has earned it a place in the list of 100 banned books maintained by the American Library Association.
