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...think we just weren’t getting open enough on the outlets,” sophomore goaltender Jake McKenna said. “I wasn’t making good passes and everybody just needed to spread out and start to widen the field out a little...
...usual in Harvard’s recent games, both teams struggled to score early. Fighting Irish defenseman Eric Simon scored the first period’s only goal, beating Crimson goalie Jake McKenna just over two minutes into the game...
...heed, allowing him to roam free. He quits his Little League team and spends his days riding along the paths of the Gunpowder River. Hank finds himself in situations which are exciting and eminently believable, from baseball games to paintball wars and illicit houseparties. He plays with his stepsiblings Jake and Stephie, and later joins some older men in a paintballing expedition that goes suddenly and frighteningly wrong. Throughout it all, he is forced to deal with the complications and hypocrisies of life with only the perspective of his limited years to guide him. Trouble has no need to come...
...example, homosexuality in Hank is neither sensationalized nor condemned; it is used to impart a message of tolerance. The first lesson is as subtle as a sledgehammer: Hank’s stepmother (whom he amusingly dubs Miss-Perfect-Lady Karen) berates Hank and Jake for casually slinging the word “fag” as an insult. Quivering with righteous indignation, she launches into a stern lecture that lacks impact for all its sincerity. The true lesson comes later when Hank befriends a homosexual couple and experiences the full vitriol of society’s hate and prejudice...
...second novel is called _Jake_ . Jake, Hank’s stepbrother, is sent away to a school called St. Stevens. He makes some mistakes and he winds up in the arms of a school that he ultimately embraces. So _Jake_ changes focus from Hank, a boy with relatively superficial problems, to Jake, who has a whole community surrounding him. And that's the only thing that gives him a chance to survive real tragedies...