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Theme Of Jacob's Rule

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Have you ever been in a high school relationship. They can be difficult. There are distraction in a relationship. In the story “Jacob’s Rule” by Sharon G. Flake, the teacher Mr. Jacob is teaching his students about relationships. He paires up every boy with a girl. This supposed to teach the students about how relationships work. Brandon who is the main character gets paired up with a girl named Marimba. She is the worst looking girl in the class. Brandon doesn’t want to be paired up with Marimba buts want to be paired up with a girl named Kenya. Brandon doesn’t want anything to do with Marimba because of how she looks. Later on in the book Brandon is starting to connect with Marimba but not fully. He and she are fighting less than they did …show more content…

They are hard because they take a lot of work and need communication. Sharon G. Flake shows this by writing out, “Kenya Adams is out recorder.” “That’s messed up too, ‘cause I been liking Kenya since forever and here she is gonna decide if I’ll make a good boyfriends or not”. “Yo, Jacobs,” I say, walking up to him. “Hook me up with Kenya?” This shows that the theme is relationships can be difficult. I think this because relationships won’t work out if you don’t like the person your with. It will make things harder. A relationships is also not all about looks. Later in the book Brandon describes all of Kenya physical appearances and nothing about how her personality is. Brandon doesn’t get paired up with the person he likes but is paired up with someone he doesn’t like and who doesn't look the best. Brandon doesn’t like Marimba so he tries and cheats on her by trying to hook up with Kenya. This relationship won’t work out if you want to be with someone different. They can’t trust each other if Brandon is going to be cheating on Marimba. This relationship won’t work …show more content…

I can see their point because in the story right after Mr. Jacob gave the partners Brandon and Marimba started fighting right away before they could get to know each other. SInce Brandon didn’t get the girl he wanted he took it out on Marimba. He didn’t like how Marimba look so he didn’t want tobe with her because of that. However, relationships are hard is a more relevant theme to the story because throughout the book Sharon G. Flake was talking about the problems a relationship can have. Some examples were when Brandon and Marimba where fighting in the hallway. Another one was when Brandon, Kenya, and Marimba where supposed to go to the movies together. Kenya said she couldn’t make it and when this happen Brandon was never paying attention to Marimba to whole time. He just kept on calling Kenya to talk to her instead of Marimba. These are all problems that relationships face and that these problems need to be worked out with each

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