The Fatal Obsession: Theme Paper over Jake Reinvented By: Chris Stokke 03/05/2014

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Obsessions definition is as follows; when someone or something fills your mind to a troubling extent. The littlest of things can obsess people and when people are obsessed they can cause harm to themselves or anyone else around them. If it comes down to people are getting hurt that obsessed person should be sent to help. Jake Garrett did not get any help until it was to late.
In the book Jake Reinvented Jake is the character that looks like he is the person that everyone wants but deep inside he is an unpopular kid. Jake grew up with a girl named Didi and fell in loved with her and couldn’t stop thinking about her, but she could never be with Jake because she was cool and he was a nerd. Jake needed to be with her show he changed everything where he lived what he wore even the way he acted. Jake did this all just to get Didi. A quote from the book proving that he changed is from Didi on page 50, “Holy cow Jake is that you? You used to be my math tutor.” That quote shows how much Jake has changed. A girl that he grew up with and even spent a lot of time with doesn’t even recognize him.
Now we move to Didi the girl of every guys dream. When Didi sees that Jake is cool she thinks that she needs to be with him. She takes being popular to serious and will only put herself with a certain crowd only dates certain people and wont even think about getting involved with anyone that isn’t popular. Then when Didi gets confronted about Todd, her boyfriend, by Jake she gets all defensive not because she wants to stay with Todd she just wants more attention than she already has. Didi and Jake get into a little argument on page 113 when Jake says, “When are you going to break up with Todd” then Didi says, “I will do it when I am read! Isn’t it go...

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...e. Jake was insane about getting Didi and when he got her he kept moving to get her to himself and no one else. Didi’s obsession is her popular status if someone is better looking or has a better boyfriend she goes after them. When Jake and Didi where younger and Jake was Didi’s math tutor she still wouldn’t go out with him because he was a nerd and that would ruin her status with all her friends and peers. There are people like that everywhere you go that obsess about stupid things like their hair or the way they look, and will work hard to make it flawless. No matter what happens those people have to get what they want done. But the sad thing is that they can hurt themselves or the people around them obsessing about that stuff. Therefore, remember when people obsess about things they could harm themselves or the people around them.

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