In this book, Jake is willing to do watever he has to to achieve what he wants. For example, in this book, Jake shaves his hair, undyes his hair and also got rid of all his ear and eyebrow piercings just so that people would not see him as a bad person anymore and also because he really wanted the part as Rolf in the play The Sound of Music. Here is the quote from the book: \" Jake was standing there, in his usual black T-shirt and black pants. But that was all that was usual about him. Gone was the eyebrow ring, gone were all the earrings. And gone was the scarlet hair. He had a dark brown crew cut now, so short his scalp showedthrough. Behind him Wiston stood, making low growing sounds. \"So what do you think?\" Jake said. \"Could I make it in the SS?\"

Jake Semple