Analysis Of Hole In My Life

Jack is 18 years old. He graduates from high school, and gets a job in the movie theatre as a ticket seller and a projectionist. He has a girlfriend named Katy, and they are going to get married in November. When he meets Katy’s parents for the first time, it was at her sister's wedding, he walked in wearing a coat and tie. Jack’s friend LeFranc plays trumpet, and he does not know what to say to a girl. But Jack is getting tired of his friends, but does not complain. He is not very enthusiastic about his job, and feels he is trapped inside. He perhaps feels like he is in a jail, because it is mentioned in the text, that while selling the tickets he looks out in the day light through the metal bars, and the metal bars perhaps symbolizes that he feels trapped inside. In the end he decides to leave in middle of his work, and drive with Katy to Fountain Lake which he wanted in a long time. He changes to a happy and free person, and finally says, that he loves her.

Similarly, Jake keeps looking back in his past and resents the time's people have wronged him, particularly his father. The narrator states that “He [father] had a way of making it harder for me [Jake]” and how “always when I [Jake] was around him[father] I did things to make me ashamed”(35). So instead of learning from his past and his father’s shortcomings he latches onto them and does the same with his daughter and family. This demonstrates Jake’s unforgiving nature and how he has trouble accepting his former and current life. Throughout the story Jake is shown to be irresponsible as he spends his wife’s support check getting drunk, he constantly comments on everybody’s negative nature but never seems to embrace their positive side. He is heedless of his daughter’s life and is seen when he asks her how school is and she replies by saying that “It’s holidays”. Jake is an ironic character in the way that he doesn't like to communicate with people but he works as a salesman, he wants people to remember him but he keeps doing things that would make one forget him. Jake is very morose and has suicidal thoughts, one instance is when he thinks of his beer bottle as a gun. “His hand taking the gun to his mouth because he had nothing left to say and no reason to go on living”. Jake’s telephone symbolizes a choice, he can use the phone to reach out to people or have it disconnected which would mean him giving into his solitary life and perhaps commit suicide. But things seem to change when Jake has to save his drowning daughter’s life and he himself has a near death experience while trying to save her. This causes Jake to have an epiphany and rethink his approach to life, he decides that the time has come where he has to choose between hiding behind his telephone or using it to reach

Jack’s fear shows the reader that not only can someone have an emotional and dangerous response to it, but it can also be used to manipulate someone for his pleasures. As a kid, Jack, feared and hated his father and loved his mother. He feared whenever his psychopathic father would bring and beat his mother in the basement. The tables turned when a deep sense of realization switched into the psyche of his mind, he ended up loving the beatings and craved the cause of fear towards his mother. His innocence is lost and is refined into the mind of a psychopath, “ The knowledge that the father could instil such terror into another human being turned the boy’s fear of him into admiration and he began to emulate him. Soon,

Jack Gantos is a middle aged man. He is one of those people that you would think of in vegas blowing all his money to try and win it all. For him there is always a light at the end of the tunnel, because he is full of hope. He never finished high school, left after his junior year. His grades are what you would call awful. Although his grades did not reflect it he is a brilliant human being, with a desire to be a writer. He loves trying new things. He often takes road trips and jumps from job to job with the changing of towns he lives in. he states the sudden moves are to find new and better things to write about. He has little to no money because he spends it on beer and weed. Likely to trust any man standing next to him he tries his luck in becoming a drug dealer but fails to do so and ends up living back with his dad in san juan.

Would you like to make ten thousand dollars selling a boat. In hole in my life by Jack Gantos a young boy named Jack makes a fatal mistake of jumping into things for money. Jack grew up in a rather poor neighborhood with next to no education. His impulsive nature and lack of basic knowledge affects all the decisions he makes from start to finish. Jacks poor emotional skills lead him down a crazy dark path. His lack of skills results in bad decisions which get him in with a bad crowd of people. In this group Jack’s judgement is severely clouded and in result he makes a fatal mistake of getting involved with the drug world. Jack’s entry started well but ends up behind bars.

The novel Hole in my life is an autobiography by Jack Gantos where we get to know him and his past deeply. In the novel Jack Gantos mentions a quote by Oscar Wilde: I have learned this: it is not what one has done that is wrong, but what one becomes as a consequence of it. Jack Gantos identified with this quote, because of his experience doing something wrong and becoming a convict because of it. Jack Gantos felt remorse for what he had done, but at what point did he feel it and why didn’t he feel it before.

His dreams of college and desire to write became a living image for Jack Gantos. All he wanted to do was become a successful writer and pursue his dreams, he didn’t expect to make mistakes that would ruin his desire to write and dreams of going to college. Jack had made many mistakes in the memoir “Hole in My Life” however, he didn’t let that toxic environment ruin his goals and desire to become a writer one day. Although many people may not agree, I believe that it is likely for one to make mistakes, but harder for one to redeem from them. Redemption is necessary in order for mistakes to be interesting.

At a young age many of us are faced with problems that we don’t understand. Whether its problems with family, friends or ourselves; we have some difficulties overcoming them. “Hole in My Life” by Jack Gantos is about Jack in his younger years wanting to write but also wanted to make money. He chose the money over his career and got himself into serious trouble. “My Friend Dahmer” by Derf Backderf is about a young boy, named Jeffrey Dahmer, who had trouble fitting it and making friends. With no one to turn to his dark twisted fantasies consumed him and made him do things he later on paid the price for. These two books share many similarities and many differences however they both portray the consequences

Throughout the movie, Jack is suicidal. He self-pity himself and thinks he is somehow being penalized for his deeds and what he told the murderer on the radio, he even start talking to a doll saying, “Do you ever get the feeling you’re getting punished for your sins?”. There are several DSMs connected to being suicidal. One is fatigue and loss of energy, feeling of worthlessness or unwarranted and misplaced guilt on a daily basis. Also, weakened capability to think or focus. Lastly, persistent thoughts of death, repeated thoughts of suicide with no detailed strategy or suicide attempts. The idea of killing yourself originates from more than one part of the brain. One such place is the Frontal Lobe where reasoning, planning, parts of speech, movement, emotions, and problem solving

This is the first time jacks true feelings come out and he turns into psycho jack which is connected with the theme. This Scene we get with jack shows the importance of this topic and how it has a deeper meaning.

It shows how Jake is persistent and dedicated to his job, even if it always seems like he is in over his head. Jake, however, also departs from the film noir tradition when he lets his emotions get the best of him. The greatest example of this is seen during the exchange between him and Evelyn when he is trying to find out the truth about Katherine. Resorting for the first time to violence against a woman, the near desperation with which Jake pushes Evelyn to confess is an expression of his fears and anxieties about being completely lost amidst the lies that surround him. The result is the humanization of Jake Giddes’ character. He simply is not perfect, and ultimately fails to see the bigger picture of what he is involved with until .

Jack illustrates the purpose of deception by using Earnest to escape his role of Cecily’s warden. When Algernon finds Jack’s cigarette case, he is shocked to find the name Jack graven inside. Jack attempts to explain by saying, “[M]y name is Ernest in town and Jack in the country” (Wilde Act I). As Jack, he has to be a responsible adult and take care of his niece Cecily but as Ernest he is able to live the wild life of a young bachelor. By pretending to be Ernest in town, Jack is freed from the restrictions of being a caretaker, yet he still fulfills the duties of one as he resides in the country. While explaining why he has two identities to Algernon, Jack states that being a guardian does not “conduce very much to either one’s health or one’s happiness” (Wilde Act I). Jack has to take care of Cecily, be responsible for her, and set rules and guidelines for her to follow. In his role of guardian, he finds himself unable to have fun, so he creates an irresponsible, carefree

Jack is a picky, mean, and bossy leader that doesn’t care about everyone, but only cares for some people and himself. Jack picks out the people he doesn’t like. He doesn’t care about Piggy because he’s probably really

In the book Holes, by Louis Sachar, I chose the character Miss Katherine Barlow also known as Kissing Kate Barlow. Miss Katherine was first a schoolteacher, but then was the most feared outlaw. In the book you find out the story of how she became an outlaw from a schoolteacher.

Jack’s creation of a fictional brother Ernest gives audience an impression that he is a hypocritical person who ignores the consequences of being dishonest. Only when his desire to marry Gwendolen is threatened does he learn that he cannot escape from responsibility or “come up to town as often as [he] like[s]” (Act 1, p.8). Suffering from the dilemma, his hidden sincerity and kindness are discovered. This makes him become a rounder character. As a consequence, the rest of the plot will be affected and advanced by his unique traits and