Spizz ends up confessing, but big trouble is narrowly averted.

Luckily, Jack avoids any real trouble from this, since Mr. Spizz later tells the police that Jack bought the poison. So, Jack becomes an accidental accessory to murder, and also a suspect, since Mr. Spizz talk him into buying poison for him in exchange for cancelling that pesky ticket. You see, because Jack doesn't want his mom to find out about the ticket, he ends up letting Mr. This action comes back to bite Jack later in the novel. He took a break from his work, and ended up getting so caught up in a history book that he never went back to properly dispose of the weeds. You know what they say about curiosity and a member of the feline species, though? Because he's so curious, Jack is prone to being distracted, like when he gets the ticket for the weeds obstructing the gutter. His physical description captures this: 'My brown curls stood up like a field planted with question marks' (2.7). How do we know this? One of his favorite hobbies is reading history books, so we know that he's curious about his world. And safety gear.)īut for the most part, he's fairly smart. (In fact, here's a tip: just don't pick up the gun in the first place, unless you're actually out, say, hunting something. For instance, shooting his dad's sniper rifle before making sure it's not loaded. (Okay, we don't know for sure that he's skinny-but we imagine he is.) Step Away from the Bookįor one thing, Jack does some dumb stuff for a brainy kid. Instead, he's a skinny twelve-year-old with a tendency to get nosebleeds and not much of a backbone. Jack is our hero-but to be honest, he's not much of a hero, at least at first.

Dead end in norvelt by jack gantos