hole in my life pages 41-80

Something very intersting about the way Jack writes is that he compares allot of his situations to books that he has read for example, Jack starts chapter 4 with, " Like every guy, I had read On the Road by Keravac adn wanted to cut loose and carom from coast to coast as he did withougt thinking of money or trouble or annything but great freedom that awaited me like a ship heading to sea." I think could poetentially really help the reader understand where he is coming from especially if they have read the book he is refrering to as well. He just wants to do something big. All year he had worked to keep himself together by keeping his job, managed his money, kept passing grades, and for th emost part he stayed out of trouble, but now his accomplishment just seemed like survival routines which he didnt want it be like that. He had told his dad he was going to come help him with his new construction job. Out of the blue, an old freind of his called him up to meet him and they met up, ended up smoking, and then before you know it Jack forgot he was driving, and they ended up stopping at a pizza parlor, and just got to catch up on eachothers lives. It was actually very intersting, his freind was extremley smart, and extremley into books and research and the sciences. So next thing you know his freind had desserted him and he is stuck at this pizza parlor. So later on he is in St. Croix where his family had recently moved to, and drugs are everywhere. Times were hard financially and there was no way he was going to be able to save money for college even though he wanted to. Something significant about Jacks dad was that he could look at someone and in seconds know there character and if they were a good person or bad person. He could tell if someone was a drug dealer.
.This book does not really go into detail so it is really hard to summarize everything that is going on. Trying not to get lengthy with the descriptions is kind of hard so i appologize if you are getting bored. But this book is so fantastic to me and maybe because the story is so foreign to me.