If he looks at someone for as little as 4 seconds, he can figure out if you’re a criminal. Jack’s Father: Jack’s dad is a tough guy to be around. He’s the receiving physician’s assistant in the prison and helped Jack get rid of lice during Jack’s stay at the prison. Bow was the nice man who was kind to Jack when he first arrived in prison. Newman, then Jack would be in prison much longer. He was very kind to Jack and would do whatever he can to decrease Jack’s sentence. Newman: Alfred is Jack’s lawyer, who defended Jack from the charges against him. He’s also crazy when you really get to know him, which Jack learned the hard way.Īlfred E.
He’s gotten out of close calls and has also made a living smuggling drugs with Rik. Hamilton: Hamilton has a big temper and usually insults Jack when he gets the chance. He knows a lot of people and makes a living smuggling hash to buyers. Rik: Rik is the man who offered Jack the job for smuggling the drugs from St. He’s always wanted to be a writer but didn’t think he had something worthwhile to write about. Jack loves to read books and write in his journal, where he writes down all his thoughts and feelings about his day. He’s desperate for cash, which got him into smuggling drugs. He’s gone through some tough times in his life and has never graduated high school.
But running just beneath the action is the story of how Gantos – once he was locked up in a small, yellow-walled cell – moved from wanting to be a writer to writing, and how dedicating himself more fully to the thing he most wanted to do helped him endure and ultimately overcome the worst experience of his life.Jack Gantos: Jack is the author of the book and the main character of the story as well. On the surface, the narrative tumbles from one crazed moment to the next as Gantos pieces together the story of his restless final year of high school, his short-lived career as a criminal, and his time in prison. In Hole in My Life, this prizewinning author of over thirty books for young people confronts the period of struggle and confinement that marked the end of his own youth. For his part in the conspiracy, Gantos was sentenced to serve up to six years in prison. For ten thousand dollars, he recklessly agreed to help sail a sixty-foot yacht loaded with a ton of hashish from the Virgin Islands to New York City, where he and his partners sold the drug until federal agents caught up with them.
In the summer of 1971, Jack Gantos was an aspiring writer looking for adventure, cash for college tuition, and a way out of a dead-end job.
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