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Doug Swieteck is one of Holling's classmates. Like Doug Swieteck’s brother, Doug is a prankster: in sixth grade, he made a list of 410 ways to make a teacher hate you, and he carried out one of them on the unsuspecting Mrs. Sidman. As far as Holling is concerned, this means that he should avoid Doug at all costs. Holling doesn't find Doug particularly smart, and Doug is observably greedy at times. For much of the year, he preps "Number 166" in the Coat Room, though he abandons this plot after Mrs. Baker arranges for him, Holling, and Danny to play baseball with the Yankees players Joe Pepitone and Horace Clarke. After this, Doug becomes a loyal friend to Holling, and even stands up to his brother when he orchestrates a plot to humiliate Holling.
Doug Swieteck Quotes in The Wednesday Wars
The The Wednesday Wars quotes below are all either spoken by Doug Swieteck or refer to Doug Swieteck. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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December
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But Doug went on in, and he came back out carrying the cardboard box for Number 166 from the Coat Room. He looked at us, shrugged, and hauled it away down the hall, staggering under its clumsy weight.
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January
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Doug wouldn't tell us what he said when he saw the pictures and the can of yellow paint. All I know is that he wouldn't help, and so took a black eye […] Whatever it means to be a friend, taking a black eye for someone has to be in it.
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Doug Swieteck Quotes in The Wednesday Wars
The The Wednesday Wars quotes below are all either spoken by Doug Swieteck or refer to Doug Swieteck. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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December
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But Doug went on in, and he came back out carrying the cardboard box for Number 166 from the Coat Room. He looked at us, shrugged, and hauled it away down the hall, staggering under its clumsy weight.
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January
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Doug wouldn't tell us what he said when he saw the pictures and the can of yellow paint. All I know is that he wouldn't help, and so took a black eye […] Whatever it means to be a friend, taking a black eye for someone has to be in it.
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