blog post #2

Jacks manner of speaking in Jerk,California is not under his control because of his Tourettes he blurts things out and repeats them without being able to stop himself  like when he screams out "Stay with Sam! Stay with Sam!"(37). When he isn't experiencing the side effect to his disease he is usually a very quiet person who doesn't talk much and keeps to him self a lot.

Jacks thoughts are very self critical. He is very ashamed of who he is and thinks about his family and about how 'Old Bill treats him like crap, how his mother doesn't seem to care and his dad is dead and the only thing he left him was with his disease he even says, " My dad is dead, but don't worry about it because he was a loser and a drunk who dug holes for a living. But he was generous; kind enough to leave me with this damn disease as my inheritance." (5) He also finds himself thinking about Naomi, a girl he meets that he basically falls in love with at the first sight of her.

The effect jack has on people is scared because hes different and defiantly misunderstood. They make fun of him and call him horrible names they are also very embarrassed of him and being around or associated with him. Unlike the kids at his school who don't even want to be in the same room as him; " Where you going Nae that freak from Geometry will be in there!"(20) His fathers friends are completely comfortable with him and are unfazed by his disease.

"Whoa, you want ME to go to California?!"- Jacks friend George is send him a trip to jerk California he doesn't know why and  and on the way having him stop at certain special places along the way, where he will have to figure out why he is being sent to Jerk California and what is the importance of the places and people he will meat along the way.

Jack as described by Naomi, after meeting for the first time: " This guys strong, brown wavy hair, hes tall too, at least he would have been if would've gotten up off his knees." Jack is a teenage boy and feels like his Tourettes is his whole appearance. When he looks in a mirror he doesn't see what other people see, like the color of his eyes or the size of his nose he feels completely defined by his Tourettes Syndrome.