Make good decisions
-The first theme to this story is to make good choices that will make your future bright. This is the first theme because he made a bad decision to help sell drugs. If he wouldn't have made the bad choice of helping out Hamilton sell hash he would have had a better life then being in jail for half of his life. If everything worked out as he planned he would never have went to jail and would have been in college quicker, but you can't make decision that will have a negative side to them. What the story is trying to say is you should make choices that will help your life, not make it life of regret.
-The first theme to this story is to make good choices that will make your future bright. This is the first theme because he made a bad decision to help sell drugs. If he wouldn't have made the bad choice of helping out Hamilton sell hash he would have had a better life then being in jail for half of his life. If everything worked out as he planned he would never have went to jail and would have been in college quicker, but you can't make decision that will have a negative side to them. What the story is trying to say is you should make choices that will help your life, not make it life of regret.
Jack when he was in fourth grade
Care about school before it is too late
-The second theme to this story is to care about school when you are in high school. The book is saying this because if he would have cared in high school he would have gotten excepted into a college before he would have had to make the bad decision of selling hash. None of these events would have happened if he would have cared about his grades in high school. This is the theme because it is amazing how when you are in high school you don't really care but high school can change your entire life. Jacks life was changed by one decision because he didn't have the grades in high school for college so he had to pay his way into college.
-The second theme to this story is to care about school when you are in high school. The book is saying this because if he would have cared in high school he would have gotten excepted into a college before he would have had to make the bad decision of selling hash. None of these events would have happened if he would have cared about his grades in high school. This is the theme because it is amazing how when you are in high school you don't really care but high school can change your entire life. Jacks life was changed by one decision because he didn't have the grades in high school for college so he had to pay his way into college.