“I’ve seen people that don’t treat their animals well and yet their animals are still just as loving to them even through they’re not treated that well. It’s very hard to find that kind of loyalty and love and affection in human beings.” -Dick Van Patten. Human nature seems to use the loyalty of others to get what they want and to test the bonds of friendship. Jake Reinvented is a book about those struggles as they paly out in the high school football world and the romance of young hearts. In their world as ours, people use loyalty as a tool to manipulate others.
Most sports teams there is a bond that’s created, that bond helps win games and keep the team together. That bond becomes a trust bond and a loyalty bond. Without this bond a team falls apart, they fall as a team. This loyalty will be tested and tested many times. By both those within the team and those outside it. In the book Jake Reinvented the football team has this bond. Yet this bond can be used as a tool to get things. In this case they are using the loyalty to get each other’s girlfriends. Todd is Didi’s boyfriend and Melissa is Nelson’s, a fellow football player. Todd was at a party and he was all over Melissa. However, Nelson was in no condition to notice. Rick shows up with Jennifer and Didi, and when he tells Todd they are here. Todd flips out and begins to cover it up with his teammates help. On page 39, “It was fourth and goal, and Todd Buckley was going to fight for Todd Buckley.” In that statement he shows that he will use the team loyalty to get himself out of a pinch. A few chapters later on chapter four Didi and Jake met for the first time since sophomore year. On page 41; later in that same chapter Rick introduces Jennifer and Didi to Jake. He does i...
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...lty. Dispy doesn’t break the loyalty for anyone because he is the remora. He feeds off everyone else for his safety. Dispy has about the same loyalty for everyone no matter what and doesn’t show it. The entire page of 68 shows that Dispy is a remora. how Dispy is there for others and they are there for him. The loyalty is there in one way or form and never goes away.
Bottom line of it all, Jake Reinvented shows both sides of loyalty coin. On one side you have how loyalty can get you out of a bad situation. Friends helping friends, like Rick and Todd. On the flip side is loyalty can be played against you as Didi did between Jake, Rick, Todd, and the whole team. These were High school kids that knew how to use these bonds as if it was an instinct. Jake Reinvented just shows how people can manipulate others by using loyalty as a tool.
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