David Klass Losers Take All

They recruit guys from soccer, basketball, a farm and even other football teams to come and play for them. Lengyel has a new vision for Marshall, and calls them the “Young Thundering Herd.” Jack is the person to do things that most coaches wouldn’t do because that just in his personality. As a result he seeks out help from Bobby Bowden, the coach of the University of West Virginia. Jack asks him “if He and Dawson can see the coaches’ videos, plays, and handbooks and even if he had any tips for them.” Bowden laughs at first and asks “if Jack was serious…” He then see that the men are serious and allows them to view the tapes, rules, handbooks and anything else they wanted. He does this because Bowden understands that a team is in grief and confusion. When this happens Dawson’s disbelief that he had about the team and Jack trying to help changes and he becomes a little bit more optimistic about the future of Marshall and the town.

Violence begins to emerge in Jack at the end of the novel. This is the last quality that shows Jack is a dynamic character. By the end of the book, Jack has become a murderer. Not only

In the end Jack leave his work and drive with Katy to Fountain Lake, and he has been waiting for that in a long time. I think in the end when Jack goes with Katy he feels happy and free. He lets go of all his worries and problems, and did not look back, and finally enjoys himself. He achieved the two things he wanted, he moved out of his parent’s house, and he has Katy on his side, and they are going to Fountain Lake, and for doing that he left his work. in the end he

As a younger child, Jack’s father encouraged Jack to play sports and exercise because he thought it would improve Jack’s quality life. However, Jack had indifference towards any sort of physical activity. “I’m tall and slender - my

Jack posses the ability to influence his peers with his charismatic nature. Although, he does lack leadership by not delegating duties with structural goals attached to reflect the desired outcome. Therefore, he loses sight of the workday operations. It is only then on Christmas Eve that he realizes his team has not entirely understood his vision.

Within the novel, one can see how athletics, specifically football, holds more importance than education for the town of Odessa. Because of this, players on the team start to be treated differently, like men rather than teenagers. In which, players become improperly prepared for the future and tend to only make it out of Odessa through athletic ability alone. As for one of the players, he learns the hard way the effects of such emphasis on athletics over education:  “I've got no idea what I want to do. I've got no idea what school I want to go to. My SAT won't be worth a shit. And no football school wants me.” (Bissinger, Epilogue) This highlights sports in society, as well as the four agents of socialization due to parental and educational impacts. Because of this, players follow a path that has been shaped for them rather than shaping their own path, causing future difficulties. For the case of Permian Panther players,

By the end of the novel, Jack has become a full blown barbarian. He is so caught up in killing pigs that he no longer listens to Ralph. He tries to become chief again and fails. Because of that, he starts his own tribe on the other side of the island where all they do is hunt pigs. The boys that follow him are transformed into the savage that he is. “Here, struck down by the heat, the sow fell and the hunters hurled themselves at her…Jack was on top of the sow, stabbing downward with his knife. Roger found a lodgment for his point and began to push till he was leaning with his whole weight. The spear moved forward inch by inch… [t]hen Jack found the throat and the hot blood spouted over his hands.” Jack and his followers were demoralized and tainted

In the novel Losers Take All by David Klass, Jack Logan, the main character, is a senior Fremont High School. Fremont High School is a New Jersey high school where importance is placed on sports success. When their old principal suddenly dies competing in a race, Mr. Muhldinger, the football coach, becomes principal and sets a school rule requiring all seniors to play a sport. The new principal unsuccessfully attempts to recruit Jack to join the football team, knowing that Jack’s father and brothers were successful football players at Fremont High. Jack joins a soccer team focused on having fun versus winning. The soccer team is made up of kids with no sports experience or interest and became known as “Losers.” With the players’ lack of experience, losing record and some strange on-field behavior, they attract national attention and develop a public following. This led to college scouts recognizing Jack has athletic ability. Jack savors this opportunity and continues to play well with the Losers but the team members do not support Jack’s efforts. Throughout the story, Jack has changed as a person as evidenced by his evolving relationship with his father, Jack’s new interest in contributing to his school, and Jack’s acceptance of his athletic ability.

The majority of the book is about Donald Zinkoff elementary school years. Zinkoff is a different kid from the other boys and girls his age. Zinkoff's life takes shape in the fourth grade where he is finally recognized for the positive person he is. Mr. Yalowitz, his fourth grade teacher, is the first teachers to truly understand Zinkoff's position in life, and as a result, the other students begin to take notice of him as well. But his reputation did not take long to change. On field day Zinkoff's clumsy athleticism causes his team to lose. This is when his classmates begin to call his “Loser" for the first time. In fifth grade, Zinkoff tries to fit in more than he used to. When Zinkoff enters middle school he begins to vanish in the eyes

Beyond athletes, Cutter High School also contains problematic coaches. Part of the reason T.J. doesn’t participate on other sports teams at school is because of the coaching staff. He explains, “Coaches have tried to get me to turn out for sports since junior high. Sometimes they’re insistent and sometimes downright nasty…even to the point of calling me a traitor” (11). These are grown men who place an overwhelming amount of importance on their sports and can’t look past their goal of winning. T.J. refers to Coach Benson, the football coach, and Coach Roundtree, the basketball coach, noting that at some point he’s sure the two coaches would “retreat to the time-tested and highly grating tool of public humiliation as a motivator” (12). Besides the way this coaching style grates personally on T.J., it shows a lack of tolerance from these coaches as well as a lack of respect for the very

Jack Merridew is presented as the indifferent, older character of the novel. He is the antagonist and could be seen as a devil figure in the story. Jack is the hunter, the dictator and, throughout the story, is at constant battle with Ralph for his leadership. Jack wants to be in control of the island and the kids but the type of leadership that he offers is brutal and similar to that of a dictatorship and communism. Jack also believes that the group should have fun and stuff oneself with the food they hunt. He is not very concerned with the future of being rescued. On the other hand, Ralph wants order and work and is much more concern with being rescued.

Throughout this novel, Jack does whatever his friends do. When he was living in Seattle with his mother, he was influenced by his new friends to do bad things. His friends, Silver and Terry were kids with no

Jack’s departure from the boys sparks a civil war in between them and ultimately creating a giant war that lead to death of some of the boys. Jacks uprising or rebellion is hinted early in the book but he shows his true side leaving Ralph’s group. This action by jack creates the events of piggy and simons death but creates the reason they are rescued. Jacks new aggression embodies war and destruction itself and is a monster. When jack breaks out against Ralph he not only defeats him but he shows that Ralph is weak eventually taking everyone Ralph has by torture or death.

In the beginning of the book you are introduced to the antagonist Jack , who is in the middle of killing the

Jack, negatively portrayed in comparison to Ralph, tempts the boys with an array of forbidden treats, indulging their most violent, suppressed desires in an attempt to lull them away from the security of Ralph. In a sense, Jack is negatively compared to Ralph throughout the novel, and is often portrayed as confused and violent, very aware of the evil inside of him: “The real problem that arises among the boys involves their own inner nature…” (Johnston 2). When his plan fails, Jack feels as though his seat of power is threatened and therefore resorts to terrorizing, threatening and essentially forcing the boys to join him and align themselves against Ralph, alienating them from their former, comfortable life-style and thus making what they once failed to appreciate all the more desirable.