Day 1: Who is this Kid? Jack Elliot Brown seems just to be your average boy but he is so much more than just that. From his adventures of sitting on frogs, fighting beta, setting fire to his drains, and slamming fish to a dock: Jack is anything but average. Going into this project I was very nervous and did not know what to expect but it turned out a lot better than I thought. Jack always sits in the back of english class he is not necessarily shy but just does not put himself out there, but Jack has a pretty eye opening personality. Jack is the youngest in his family, with three older sisters, one of 22 and two sisters of 18. Jack has a mom and dad thought they are divorced so he goes to his dads for a week than his moms house for the next week. He has four dogs and use to have a cat till it passed away just last month. Sadly, this will not be the first time Jack had to go through lost of a love one. As time passed we got to the second day of the week we got talked about all the basics of family and to what we are interested in. One thing that really surprised me about Jack were his many talents that he has: he is on the rowing team, does skiing in the winter, he likes to …show more content…
Jack and I truly joked around this whole project so this made it very hard to get a story with a true meaning behind it. Jack told me many stories about him hurting animals which made me start to question his sanity but after we got past all that I finally got a story with some meaning in it. At a very young age Jack and his father went into Bed Bath and Beyond. Walking through the clear automatic doors his nose was hit with the smell of crisp candles and the weird hint of cleaning supplies. Walking around a bit with his dad, they still could not find what they wanted. “Jack--You stay here and I will be right back. Do not do anything that could get you in trouble,” demanded Jack’s
Jack is the biggest character in this book. Jack is a 12-year-old boy that is very good at baseball and very passionate about it as well. He lives in a fairly big city in New York called, Walton. His family has lived there his whole life and the baseball tradition kept on. His father played for the same baseball team that jack is playing for when he was a young kid. Jack was described in the book as big tall, average build, blonde hair, and a good head on his shoulders. Jack’s personality wasn’t really noticeable until later in the book. At the beginning of the book he was just an average kid that loved to play baseball. He had his normal friends that he hung out with every day and an older brother that he really looked up to. Jack loved his friends and his family just as much as he loved baseball. Then one day when jack got home his mother and father were crying and when he asked why they were crying they said that his brother had died is a tragic motorcycle accident. This tore Jack up inside more than anyone would have ever thought. As a result of his brother’s death he quit baseball and shunned some of his friends. When he did this he come to get really close to a girl that he started hanging out with. Her name was Cassie and she was the reason he was able to hold it all
Jack Spencer's dad is tough on him, but Jack's learned to live with it. For the most part, Jack has it pretty good. He's a star player on his high school basketball team with everything going for him - scoring records, popularity, and an easy path to a college scholarship. Then, the unbelievable happens, and bad news leads to worse news. Almost as fast as the crash that put his mom in the hospital, everything that Jack believes in starts to crumble. His only hope is to discover what's really going on, and quickly. If he doesn't, Jack may lose much more than a basketball career.
A prevailing theme that is present in The Boys in the Boat by Daniel James Brown is the idea of grit. Grit is the mental toughness and firmness of mind and spirit; it is also the courage and resolve of character. The theme of grit evolves and unfolds throughout the entirety of the book. From the beginning, Joe has had to persevere through rough child hood, barely scraping by and each day strengthening himself to be more self-reliant. During school, Joe was required to change himself in order to better himself and the team. He was driven to be the best that he could; and maybe one day, he could finally fill the void left by his father. Whether it be his childhood, college, or the Berlin games, Joe had to fight through and toughen his mind
Threats made him great because they made him think about what he was going to do with his life if he did not behave, and his future didn't look so bright. Also, others not reacting when he misbehaved made Jake a greater person because he just wanted attention and when he didn't get it he stopped. Finally, discovering his passion made Jake great because it gave him joy and he started to relate to others and want to also give them happiness. To summarize, Jake went through a lot, his parents were in jail, he moved in with a new family, and was threatened to be locked up. Jake's life was an emotional roller coaster, and he could have sat around feeling sorry for himself. But instead, he helped the Applewhites, worked hard and tried to please others. He realized that he could change his future. He stepped up to the challenge and made a difference in his life. Jake became
Alton Crawford Brown was born in Los Angeles on July 30th, 1962. His parents were from a rural town in Georgia, Sir Alton Brown and his wife moved with their son, when he was 7, back to their home town. This is where Alton spent the rest of his days growing up. During his young age he spend a lot of time in the kitchen with his mother and grandmother learning to cook. Alton had a rough childhood at one point in time, his father committed suicide and later on his mother got remarried. While researching Alton Brown they don’t really say much about his childhood, they mainly focus on his college years and beyond into adulthood. Although through learning about his childhood you can find out that cooking was never his dream, Alton as a child dreamed
The author of the story “Strays”, Mark Richard, starts off with the main characters, the two brothers, lying in their beds listening to the sound of stray dogs beneath the floorboards, scratching their flee infested backs, and licking the water leaking from the pipes. The mother of the children runs off into the cornfields while the father chases after her. The father’s brother, Uncle Trash, comes to babysit the boys and ends up scamming the boys out of everything they own. The parents still haven not returned, and when Uncle Trash returns after a night of heavy drinking the boys notice he was beaten up and his truck is gone. Later in the story while the adults are out of the house, the two brothers caught one of the stray dogs and sprayed
Knowles deliberately juxtaposes Gene’s social awkwardness to Finny’s natural athleticism and charisma to suggest an imbalance of power between the two boys. Set in Devon School, described as “very athletic” (Knowles 13), Finny, “an extraordinary athlete…the best athlete in the school,” (16) establishes himself to be popular, tilting the balance of power. Stating there is no one “in this school – in this world – whom [he] could trust” (53), Knowles introduces Gene as a distrustful individual. Gene’s hesitant nature lets the animated Finny take charge of their relationship. To create power imbalance, the author purposefully creates Gene and Finny with wildly different personalities.
Jack Burden is known as the “student of history” ( Warren 372). The very fact that he is a historian is ironic, as he has come from an aristocratic and reputable family and grew up in Burden’s Landing. However, Jack lacks the ambition needed to excel in life and works for Willie, despite the disapproval of this family. He “not only lacks ambition, but all ‘essential confidence’ in himself” (Bloom 132). If he had ambition, he could have married Anne Stanton earlier, as Anne would always tell him to “go on back to State and finish up” and then she will marry him “even before [he] gets [his] law degree” (448). Yet, Jack forced himself to get kicked out of school. Even as a historian, Jack cannot deal with new things he learns about people he is closely associated with. After he learned that Lois was actually a person and not “merely a luscious machine” he went into one of series of the Great Sleep ( Warren 459). After he learned about Anne Stanton and Willie’s affair, Jack temporarily escaped to the West because “when [people] don’t like whey [the] are [they] always go West” (Warren 464). Jack was not able to cope with this news that he had to leave to relieve his mind. In addition, as a historian, he does not delve into his own past. Concerning his father, he only knew that the Scholarl...
Slowly, they become increasingly fearful. Then a boy named Jack rebels and forms his own tribe with a few boys such as Roger and Bill. Many things, such as their environment, personalities and their own minds, contribute to their change. Eventually, many of the boys revert to their inherently evil nature and become savage and only two boys remain civilized. The boys deal with many trials, including each other, and true colors show.
Jack is a prime example of a Narcissists, which are people who for lack of a better word, ‘full of themselves’, and extremely unconfident, so they try to mask that with pretending to be magnificent, astounding people. He overstates his accomplishments and abilities in order to keep himself on a pedestal. For example, when describing his hunters, he describes them as being strong and alert, when in reality; they are undeveloped boys with sticks. “People with narcissistic personality disorder tend to try to maintain an image of perfection and invincibility to as to prevent other people...
Jack is a small weak kid who Is smart and funny. One challenge Jack faces in the book is
Bill Evans was one of the white jazz musicians who were accepted as powerful innovators (Gridley 1978). Since he was a little child, he was largely interested in music and started learning various instruments. He began learning about classical music more in depth as he got into college and later came to be called the “Chopin of the modern jazz piano” (Tirro 1993). He developed his own distinctive musical style while working as a sideman with Miles Davis, and working as a bandleader of three trios. Later on, he received seven Grammy awards for his recordings and was even posthumously granted a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award in 1994. This paper will examine few of his influential techniques and works as well as their impact on the structure
Rebecca West and Virginia Woolf give great significance to the families of their respective main characters in The Return of the Soldier and Jacob’s Room because it gives the reader a greater insight to the formation of and reasoning for both Chris and Jacob’s nature. Each of these characters have multiple families to deal with: Chris has Kitty and Jenny on the one hand, and Margaret on the other, while Jacob deals with his mother and brother as well as his connections to society and academia. The distinctions between each character’s multiple families cause them to behave differently in various situations, and provide reasons for their actions. It is said that we are shaped by our surroundings and molded by our families, and Woolf and West’s male protagonists prove to be no exception to this rule.
Lastly, towards the end of the story. Everyday in life; we keep a secret from friends and families. Rabbit keep stealing Otter eat, but Otter did not realize it at the first time. Well, the Rabbit thought , “oh, it’s okay otter doesn’t know”. Little that he know, Otter tracked him down. That happens in life always. Sometimes we keep secret of bad things we’ve done. We thinks it’s okay but it comes down, it put us into big trouble and bad
...ask him to get a better understanding of him and how he thinks. The first question I think I would ask him is if he was happy with the impact he had on the world. I would want to know if he was satisfied with the life he lived, or if he thinks he should have done more and lived it to its fullest extent. I would want to know what he regrets doing and not doing. More specifically I would like to know if he would have ever guessed that the outrageous behavior that set him apart in his generation would become mainstream like it is now. I think Jack would have some interesting ideas about the youth of today and the future. Lastly I would want to know if he was disappointed that his moral message has been all but lost in the twenty-first century.