How does Jerry win the Coaches approval at practice?

How does Jerry win the Coaches approval at practice?

How does Jerry win the coach’s approval at practice? By making a great play during the practice; throwing the touchdown pass to Goober.

What important realization does Jerry come to concerning the coach and football at the end of Chapter 12?

Chapter 12 Finally, on the seventh try, Jerry gets off a pass to The Goober, who runs it in for a touchdown. The coach congratulates Jerry, and finally feeling triumphant, he finishes practice.

Why does Archie choose Jerry for an assignment?

Why does Archie choose Jerry for an assignment? How does Obie feel about Archie’s choice? Archie chooses Jerry because he seems stubborn and though. Obie feels Archie should leave Jerry alone because Coach will be tough on him and because his mother died recently.

What does Jerry do when the vigil assignment ends?

Eventually, it becomes common knowledge that Jerry’s refusal is prompted by a Vigils assignment. Brother Leon, at first outraged, looks forward to the assignment ending, since after ten days, Jerry is supposed to accept the chocolates and begin selling them.

What happened to Jerry’s mother?

Jerry’s mother left home and died. His father died soon after. He was raised by an aunt.

Why does Jerry refuse to sell the chocolates?

Why does Jerry refuse to sell the chocolates? Initially Jerry refuses to sell the chocolates because The Vigils tell him too. After the ten days are up, something in him does not allow him to accept the chocolates.

What were Jerry’s principal reactions to his mother’s death?

Following the death of his mother, Jerry is overcome with rage and struggles to appropriately cope with the tragic situation. Jerry’s anger keeps him up at night as he lays in his bed thinking about his mother’s funeral and the way the disease ravaged her in the end.

Who is brother Leon?

Brother Leon is the Assistant Headmaster at Trinity, and Jerry’s homeroom teacher. Like Archie, he seems almost too villainous to be believed. Since we never get inside his head, and don’t get info about his past, we don’t know if he’s always been this way, or how he got so rotten.

Why does Jerry compare himself to the Apostle Peter What makes Jerry think of this comparison?

Jerry compares himself to Peter because he considers himself a coward, “thinking one thing and saying another, planning one thing and doing another – he (has) been Peter a thousand times and a thousand cocks (have) crowed in his lifetime” (Chapter 1).

Why is Jerry’s decision so earthshaking?

Why is Jerry’s decision so earthshaking? Because Brother Leon/ Jerry were surprised that Jerry said no. How does Jerry feel after he refuses to take the Chocolates? Jerry feels unsure why he refused to take the Chocolates.

What did brother Jacques do just as janza was beating Jerry?

Janza moves to strike Jerry and Jerry blocks the punch. The crowd gets angry, as it happened too quickly for most of them to realize, and they just saw Jerry block a punch. The crowd chants for Janza to kill Jerry. Just as Jerry passes out, Obie sees Brother Leon in the stands and realizes he was there the whole time.

What kind of relationship do Jerry and his father have?

Jerry also has an adversarial relationship with his father-in-law, Rick and he often competes with the latter for the admiration of his family.