Jack’s environment greatly affected the choices he made. Even though jack was young and naïve, the environment he grow up in led to a lot of bad choices. Drugs were a big thing back then. It was easy to get and just about anyone can their hands on it. For example, jacks old friend, Tim, wanted to visit jack. So he did. After jack pick him up he told jack “Want some.... I’m in pre-med, it can’t hurt you.” (Gantos, pg 47) This naive way of thinking basically could describe the environment as naïve and selfish. Just because Tim was pre-med he completely disregarded how it can affect people lives and body. Furthermore, when jack picked Tim up for the first time he stated that Tim changed and he looked like he hadn’t slept in weeks. Tim was already showing symptoms of a drug addiction. Finally, when jack land in St. Croix he said drugs were available everywhere.”
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Jack’s naïve way of thinking/bad decision making would have got him sooner or later. Jack was young and he thought that he was invincible and thinks nothing bad will happen to him. He finds out later that he is not. Some of jack’s unwise choices are doing drugs, selling drugs, and drinking lots of alcohol. These are the quality’s many prisoners that end up in prison. Furthermore, Jack was very selfish. He would not even think about the people he was hurting with the drugs. For example, one of jack’s customers named Lucas was caught with drugs and would be serving prison time. Jack went to talk to Lucas but he wasn’t home, his wife was. She answered the door and invited jack inside. She told jack, “You like to sell it, but did you ever consider what it could do to the people who bought it?” (Gantos, pg.136). Jack never stopped to think how much damage he was doing until it was too late. All jack thought was he would get his $10,000 and forget everything that happened. For this very reason it led him on a path that he would never forgot for the rest of his
Jack’s naïve way of thinking/bad decision making would have got him sooner or later. Jack was young and he thought that he was invincible and thinks nothing bad will happen to him. He finds out later that he is not. Some of jack’s unwise choices are doing drugs, selling drugs, and drinking lots of alcohol. These are the quality’s many prisoners that end up in prison. Furthermore, Jack was very selfish. He would not even think about the people he was hurting with the drugs. For example, one of jack’s customers named Lucas was caught with drugs and would be serving prison time. Jack went to talk to Lucas but he wasn’t home, his wife was. She answered the door and invited jack inside. She told jack, “You like to sell it, but did you ever consider what it could do to the people who bought it?” (Gantos, pg.136). Jack never stopped to think how much damage he was doing until it was too late. All jack thought was he would get his $10,000 and forget everything that happened. For this very reason it led him on a path that he would never forgot for the rest of his