Jack is one of those characters where you just want to take your hands, rip him out of the book, and strangle him. Any true man would not celebrate his significant other's birthday the way he did with the girl. For a present, he gives her a diary, probably old and used, with a latch that does not even work while they spend the day in his dingy truck, hiding from his wife and drinking tequila. As they sit there, they begin

covered boots with a bottle of tequila against his crotch. Had he cared about her at all, he would have at least had the decency to divorce his wife for this girl instead of forcing her to hide at the floor of his truck just to save his own butt.

thinking about what the girl will write in the diary years from now. The girl fantasizes about having a family with Jack, despite the fact that Jack is saying in years they will be broken up and she will have forgotten about him. His scenario gives hints that he is already planning their break-up and does not really have any feelings for this girl. From the way he treats the girl now, it is no surprise he does not see a future with her.

Consequently, neither Jack's nor the nameless girl's visions of the future are a shock to the readers. First of all, Jack gives her a careless birthday present and treats her like dirt while she is naive enough to put up with it all. Therefore, it is no surprise that each of them have differe

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Approximate Word count = 657
Approximate Pages = 3 (250 words per page double spaced)