Theme Paper Over the Story Jake Reinvented Written By: Gordon Korman

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Recommended: A short note on the theme of love in literature

The definition of love according to dictionary.com is “a form of feeling or warm attachment to another person.” This definition is important to my theme paper and my theme statement in this essay. My theme statement is “just because you are loved doesn’t mean that everyone loves you.” In the first part of my essay I am going to talk about my theme statement and then in the 2nd half of the essay I am going to relate my theme statement to the story using quotes and personal analyzing. The theme statement that I came up with is not just important to the story Jake Reinvented but it is also important to the life. Just because you are loved doesn’t mean that everyone loves you is a theme statement that is showed through out the whole book of Jake Reinvented. I have read the whole book and I have found 3 really good quotes from the book that I can use as examples of why my theme statement is so connected to the story Jake Reinvented.

Chapter 3 is a good example of this as Jennifer really pays a lot of attention towards Jake because she really likes Jake. However, Jake doesn’t like Jennifer as much as he likes Didi, because all Jake does is focus on Didi the whole time because he likes Didi. My reference comes from the page 33 in chapter 3. “I didn’t have a crush on her- no more than every other male on the planet, anyway.” This shows that Jake thought that Didi was Cute and so Didi and so did every other man on this planet. This is another good idea of my theme because it shows that it looks like everyone likes Jake but really Jennifer is mad at him because Jake won’t look at her at all because Jake’s attention is all over Didi.

Another example of my theme statement is in Chapter 4. Jake and Didi start talking a lot because Didi re...

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...ing a bunch of new people to his next party. This stands out because it proves how much Jakes loves Didi but just because everyone loves Jake doesn’t mean that Didi is completely in love with Jake. Technically the reader think that Didi loved Jake but now people that read the book are wondering what is happening and that’s why I loved this book so much. Didi does like Jake but in this chapter, Gordon Korman really makes it look like Didi doesn’t like Jake.

I have put in 5 quotes and I have read the movie and for the reasons above I believe that my theme statement is a true theme to the book. It is a good book and I am glad that Mr. Larson made us read it. There is a lot of love tension in the story and it really makes this theme paper feel really easy to write since I have liked the book and since it supplies so many good examples.

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