ATKM #1Ryan George

Jack's role has changed a little bit throughout the first part of the book. He originally worked as a newspaper writer, but after a conflict, found that working for Willie Talos was in his interest. Jack is that intern that does whatever you want him to for Willie, except he's not an intern, he gets paid. Jack does whatever Willie asks of him. He does small things, as well as larger requests, like digging up dirt on the Judge for Willie. It wasn't all to desirable a job for Jack, after all the Judge was a father figure to him. But Willie was his boss, and he paid him, so he did it anyway, whether it be uncomfortable or not. It was clear however, that Willie wanted Jack to find something on Judge Irwin, desperately. "To hell with election day. I can deliver Masters prepaid, special handling. But if it takes ten years, you find it." (71) You could easily tell that Jack resented secretly finding information about his father figure, as he tried to talk his way out of doing the job multiple times. "There is always something." " Maybe not on the Judge." (71) Jack was put in a very tough spot, as his job is telling him to do one thing and his heart is telling him to do another. Although it is hard for Jack, he goes in depth in research to try and dig up secrets about Judge Irwin. He first goes to one of his old friends, and then after goes to Anne Stanton, who was part of the house of Governor Stanton. He talked to Adam in the end, who ended up giving him the answers she was looking for. Jack was very pleased with his work, that he had so brilliantly come up with this information. However, it was bittersweet for him, as a part of him felt bad for digging up secrets about his father figure. I think it shows that jobs like Willie Talos’ and Jack’s can sometimes make you do things that you don’t necessarily want to do, corrupt things. I think we will begin to see more and more of this behavior as the book goes on.