Seth Wall Agamah English 8 A 3 November 2017 Jack is our hero but to be honest, he's not much of a hero, at least at first. Jack is skinny, a sergeant, and sneaky. He is a skinny twelve-year-old with a tendency to get nosebleeds and not much of a backbone. Okay, we don't know for sure that he's skinny but we imagine he is. For one thing, Jack does some dumb stuff for a brainy kid. For instance, shooting his dad's sniper rifle before making sure it's not loaded. That Shmoopsters, is a dumb move. In fact, here's a tip; just don't pick up the gun in the first place, unless you're actually out hunting something. With a responsible adult and safety gear. But for the most part, he's fairly smart. How do we know this? One of his favorite hobbies is reading history books, so we know that he's curious about his world. His physical description captures this: "My brown curls stood up like a field planted with question marks". You know what they say about curiosity and a member of the feline species though. Since he is so curious, Jack is prone to being distracted, like when he gets the ticket for the weeds obstructing …show more content…
You see, because Jack doesn't want his mom to find out about the ticket, he ends up letting Mr. Spizz talk him into buying poison for him in exchange for cancelling that pesky ticket. So, Jack becomes an accidental accessory to murder, and also a suspect, since Mr. Spizz later tells the police that Jack bought the poison. Luckily, Jack avoids any real trouble from this, since Mr. Spizz ends up confessing, but big trouble is narrowly averted. Moral of the story; finish your chores before picking up that page-turner—even if it's a respectable history book rather than a sparkly vampire tome. But this curiosity isn't all bad. Jack's insatiable need to know about things whether it's the history he reads in books or the "whisper history" of Norvelt gossip actually ends up helping him to