Jack continuously tried with all his effort to keep up with his writing and reading. However, things turned out to be not so bad after all. Jack Gantos was sentenced to serve six years in prison. Jack and Hamilton found out that Rick was the snitch and had betrayed them.
Nevertheless, Jack and his partners were caught by federal agents at the Chelsea Hotel, after being so close to finish selling the drugs.
This demonstrates Jack's fondness of writing. He actually had the time to sit down and write his experience and feelings down. However, there was nothing to do at sea but sit there and wait until they reached their destination. During the days at sea, Jack described how he never had time to actually sit down and write. Jack was promised he would receive ten thousand dollars after the mission was over. When asked to smuggle drugs on a sailboat from the Virgin Islands to New York, he quickly agrees without considering the consequences. However, arriving in the weeks following the Fountain Valley incident, the only construction taking place was the building of packing crates to help out the mass moving of continentals fleeing the island with all their furnishings. Croix and expects to be assisting his father in the construction business. It all started when Jack Gantos wanted to become a writer, when he didn't even finish high school. This chapter really captured my mind and had me thinking, visualizing, asking myself questions, and predicting of what was going to happen next. Then Hamilton was caught, and Jack luckily escaped. I had questions in mind like 'what if there is a snitch?' and 'what if it's Hamilton or Rick?'. Jack wasn't paying attention, but I was beginning to think about it. Then Hamilton reassured Jack that the police can't catch them on their own unless there is a snitch. ".but I can tell you the fear of waiting to get caught was worse than getting caught." Somehow, I could visualize all this in my mind and feel the fear that Jack is facing. After reading the stories of how some prisoners got caught, Jack stated "This is how I got caught." This sentence made me nervous, anxious, and excited to go on and read and see how Jack was caught. Right when I read that sentence, I had a feeling something was going to go terribly wrong, which was Jack getting caught. That was the beginning sentence of Chapter 4 in Part 2. "Everybody in prison has a story about how they were caught." (Gantos 99). The most interesting chapter in this novel is Chapter 4 of Part 2.
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