5-4-3-2-1 on Hole In My Life

5) Comments
- Jack is very talented and has a huge passion for reading. But I don’t really get why he isn’t doing so well in school
- Unlike other stories. Jack started his book telling everyone the result and the future of him, then start talking about the past.
- In the car alone when he got kicked out of the Mr. Bacon family. That is probably the change of his life because he thought of the things he been doing wrong and the things about Mr. Bacon’s family.
- Jack is probably regretting when he enter the run down motel room. And he probably regret about the choice he made that got him kick out of the family.
- Jack read a lot of book. He talk about at least 3 books already.
- When Jack said that he is going to get better because that is how the family runs, I don’t think he will get better with his life

4) Question
- Why didn’t Jack just stay working with his dad since he got mess up badly already?
- If Jack is so hard working by writing all those journals. Why didn’t he get a good grade in school?
- Since Jack’s father knows so many criminals is his father a criminal before too?
- What did Jack do end him up in jail in the first few pages?

3) Vocabulary
- Churning: to make by stirring. Stirring.
- Morgue: a place where the bodies of dead person are kept until released for burial.
- Acquaintance: Person’s knowledge

2) Literary Terms
- Chronological: The Beginning of the story where Jack found himself in the jail was the future and then he came back to the beginning where he was attending high school.
- Direct Characterization: When he got kick out of the Bacon family. He was describing the family seem to be loveless, miserable.

1) Overview
At the beginning, Jack was behind bars then the story swift to when he was young, and his dad use to tell him all the criminal he know everywhere they go, then the time swift to when Jack is attending senior years when he left Dominican republic because he wanted to get a diploma for high school. And he lived in Bacon’s family house until he got drunk and mess up the house. He got kicked out of the house and force to live on his own.