He attempts to save Kate from the infamous day of her death. These decisions are what generally led Jack down a tumultuous path every time
Often, he is frustrating as heĬonsistently makes the worst decisions and takes the riskiest leaps of faith. Is he meant to save her? Save his friendships? He has a multitude of chances to figure it out because it doesn’t happen once- it happens more than three dozen times.Īnd hero, Jack King is perfectly imperfect. Only, he doesn’t know what the purpose of it all is. Jack is taken back in time to the beginning, to that same party where it all started so that he may relive those four months they had together. And it feels as though that is the end of Jack and Kate’s story. Not because she doesn’t reciprocate, but because she dies. His world is turned around completely, however, when he figures out that Kate is an “almost” as well.
She is quirky, honest, and intriguing, everything about her makes Jack fall quickly and deeply. They bond at a party over their mutual love of cereal, leaving Jack immediately entranced. That is, until he meets Kate, a student at Whittier, the university he hopes to attend after he graduates. Reynolds does just that by writing a fun story with an intricate plot centered on an African-American boy desperately trying to save the life of a girl he “almost-loves.” Jack is the king of “almost” as he was almost valedictorian, an athlete, and even his best friend’s boyfriend. And I just think every kid deserves a book that looks like them,” Author Justin A. In the beginning of Opposite of Always, Jack King, the novel’s protagonist, mentions, “but there aren’t a lot of books about kids like me.
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