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Christos “Chris” Theodorakis
Theo Theodorakis is a high-school senior. He’s one of Sam Westing’s 16 potential heirs. George and Catherine’s and Chris’s older brother, Theo is a family-oriented youth who loves his parents and his brother and who is determined to do whatever he can to help them all through a difficult time. Theo even gives his half of the check, which he and Doug receive at the start of the Westing game during the reading of Westing’s will, to his parents in hopes of easing their burdens. Theo has an analytical mind, and he tries to solve the Westing game using science and formulas—a tactic which literally backfires. Though Theo harbors a crush on Angela for the duration of the game, he ultimately marries Turtle and becomes a mildly successful novelist. Thoughtful, curious, and astute, Theo wants to solve the Westing game for unselfish reasons: he wants to help those he loves.
Theo Theodorakis Quotes in The Westing Game
The The Westing Game quotes below are all either spoken by Theo Theodorakis or refer to Theo Theodorakis. 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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Chapter 5 Quotes
"Itsss-oo-nn," Chris announced.
"What did he say?"
"He said it's snowing," Theo and Flora Baumbach explained at the same time.
The heirs watched helplessly as the invalid's thin frame was suddenly torn and twisted by convulsions. Only the dressmaker rushed to his side. "I know, I know," she simpered, "you were trying to tell us about the itsy-bitsy snowflings."
Theo moved her away. "My brother is not an infant, and he's not retarded, so please, no more baby talk."
Blinking away tears, Flora Baumbach returned to her seat, the elfin smile still painted on her pained face.
Some stared at the afflicted child with morbid fascination, but most turned away. They didn't want to see.
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Chapter 11 Quotes
"Now then, if no two sets of clues are alike, as the will says, that could mean that each set of clues is only part of one message. The more clues we put together, the better chance we have of finding the murderer and winning the game. Of course, the inheritance will be divided into equal shares."
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Chapter 14 Quotes
America! America!
May God thy gold refine
Till all success be nobleness
And every gain divine.
Theo had begun reading the refrain and ended up singing. He shyly laughed off his foolishness. "I guess it doesn't have anything to do with money or the will, just Uncle Sam's patriotism popping up again."
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Chapter 30 Quotes
Veiled in black, she hurried from the funeral services. It was Saturday and she had an important engagement. Angela brought her daughter, Alice, to the Wexler-Theodorakis mansion to spend Saturday afternoons with her aunt.
There she was, waiting for her in the library. Baba had tied red ribbons in the one long pigtail down her back.
"Hi there, Alice," T. R. Wexler said. "Ready for a game of chess?"
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Theo Theodorakis Character Timeline in The Westing Game
The timeline below shows where the character Theo Theodorakis appears in The Westing Game. The colored dots and icons indicate which themes are associated with that appearance.
Chapter 2
...his Chinese eatery, Shin Hoo’s Restaurant, on the fifth floor. On the same day, George Theodorakis opens up a less-expensive coffee shop on the ground floor and finds himself flooded with...
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...people stand in the Sunset Towers driveway. Sandy McSouthers, the doorman, stands with high-school seniors Theo Theodorakis and Doug Hoo and the sixty-two-year-old delivery boy Otis Amber. Otis is pointing north,...
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Upstairs, from the window of apartment 2D, 15-year-old Chris Theodorakis watches the group clustered in the driveway. Chris, who has used a wheelchair since the...
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Chapter 3
Upstairs, Theo Theodorakis tells his brother Chris, who is having an episode of spasms, about the legend...
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Chapter 4
...premises. Turtle knows that four people were in the Westing house last night: Doug Hoo, Theo Theodorakis, Otis Amber, and Sandy. She sets out to find them and collect her $24.
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Chapter 5
...Otis Amber arrives next, followed by Doug Hoo and Mr. Hoo. Sandy arrives, then the Theodorakis boys. Chris grows excited when he spots snow falling outside, and as he collapses into...
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Chapter 7
...tables with two chairs at each are set up in the center of the room. Theo, who loves chess, is delighted as he spots a game of chess laid out. He...
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...Wexler—but both are absent. Turtle is paired with Flora. Chris is paired with Denton Deere. Theo suggests he should be paired with his brother, and Deere protests having to give medical...
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Chapter 8
Sydelle and Angela go together to visit Chris Theodorakis in his apartment. Sydelle fawns attention on Chris, embarrassing Angela. Chris struggles through his speech...
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Doug and Theo, meanwhile sign their check hastily. They are excited to split the funds. Theo wants to...
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Both women jump at a knock on the door. Sydelle lets Theo in—he asks if anyone wants to play chess. He is determined to find out who...
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Chapter 9
Judge Ford and Theo are getting ready for the party when the newsperson Ford spoke with earlier calls back...
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Chapter 10
...concept of twins into each conversation with no luck. Judge Ford watches George and Catherine Theodorakis—Theo and Chris’s parents—as they stand together with Chris, looking troubled and tired, in the corner...
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Chapter 11
Theo pushes Chris into the elevator to head down to the coffee shop. They see that...
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...ask anonymously whatever questions they all have. Everyone writes their questions out on papers, which Theo reads aloud. One question asks if anyone is a twin—no one answers. Another asks what...
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The final question—which, Theo recognizes, was painstakingly written out by Chris—is never answered. Something terrible happens, and the meeting...
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Chapter 13
...heirs head up to the establishment for dinner. Chris and Sydelle sit together, as do Theo and Angela. Angela, making small talk, asks Theo about his college plans. Theo, however, says...
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Chapter 14
...she was pretty enough to never be without a man who would chauffer her around. Theo comes into the lobby and excitedly tells Angela he’s found the source of the quote...
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Chapter 15
On Friday, Theo, Doug, and Turtle all return to school. The coffee shop is full, but Shin Hoo’s...
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Turtle, Sandy, Doug, Theo, and Otis stand outside Sunset Towers looking at the Westing manor—no smoke has come from...
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...and kicking him. Otis pedals away, insisting that there is no murderer—Westing was simply insane. Theo asks Sandy if anyone else came out of the building on Halloween night other than...
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...plan on ordering from the café tonight and from Hoo’s tomorrow. They are disappointed when Theo delivers their order, and, instead of questioning him decide to go through the files from...
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...the picture, Sandy wonders what the connection is between Angela, who looks like Violet, and Theo, who looks like George (a man who was once seen in the society pages dancing...
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Chapter 17
Theo, meanwhile, tries to arrange his clues into some kind of numerical formula or equation as...
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Chapter 18
At school, Theo is still perturbed by his encounter with Crow the night before. He remembers Crow giving...
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Chapter 19
...for some tests. Chris reaches into the pocket of his bathrobe—he has something for Angela. Theo has a crush on Angela and Chris suspects that Theo wanted to sneak a letter...
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Chapter 20
...not come out for hours. At five, Otis returns to Sunset Towers. Doug wonders where Theo is. Theo, it turns out, is in the emergency room after finding out that his...
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Ford and Sandy continue placing orders from the coffee shop until George Theodorakis himself delivers their order. When he arrives, they ask him about Violet Westing. George explains...
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As Ford and Sandy puzzle over why Westing involved Chris and Theo but not George or Catherine in the game, they begin to consider the deeper question...
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Chapter 21
Theo comes up to Flora’s apartment, where Turtle and Flora are counting their stock market winnings,...
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Theo follows Otis and Crow on a city bus bound for a gritty downtown neighborhood. Together,...
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Theo returns to Sunset Towers and calls the elevator. When it arrives in the lobby and...
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Chapter 23
...on First the next day. Crow and Otis offer “mother” as their answer. Doug and Theo offer no answer. Sydelle and Angela sing “America the Beautiful” together, then offer “Otis Amber”...
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Chapter 24
Paranoia takes over—the heirs begin to worry that they’ve been poisoned or framed. Theo suggests that the heirs stop fighting and pointing fingers and work together instead. Sydelle speaks...
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Chapter 25
Theo reveals that Sandy was the one who knew how to play chess—Sandy was about to...
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Chapter 27
...Plum says that the coroner determined Sandy died of a heart attack, as did Mr. Westing—Theo states that the coroner, Sikes, was in on the plot as Westing’s old friend. Plum...
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Chapter 29
...coming, too. Hoo is a wealthy man now thanks to his business, Hoo’s Little Foot-Eze. Theo is a cub reporter: he helped contribute to an article covering Doug’s Olympic success, as...
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...Hoo’s On First, Hoo’s On Second, and so on, but she caters the afternoon herself. Theo comes up to her and asks who the “attractive young woman” talking to Flora is—Grace...
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Chapter 30
...Eastman asks how T.R.’s husband is—and how his writing is coming along. T.R. reveals that Theo is a novelist who is nearly finished with his second book. If the two of...
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