Without some sort of relationship, you and I wouldn't be here today. Obviously, relationships are important and meaningful things. There's no doubt that Gordon Korman's Jake Reinvented does just that, depicting the story of a high school student who gets himself and his peers into a mess of lie-based drama. Jake Reinvented accurately depicts the life of a modern-day high school teenager. Many believe the theme is that people can obsess over one small thing and get lost in something completely unimportant. The book can describe this very well. The book Jake Reinvented accurately depicts the lives of today's high school teenagers, due to the levels of social "coolness", the diversity of people, and the truth behind high school life. An ambitious teen analogue to The Great Gatsby, Gordon Korman's new novel Jake, Reinvented, makes its literary antecedents explicit: Jay and Daisy have been replaced by Jake and Didi; Tom and Nick by Todd and Rick. Wealthy 1920s Long Island transferred to a contemporary suburban high school called F. Scott Fitzgerald High. Korman even opens the novel with a portentous epigraph from Gatsby and playfully dedicates it “For Jay and Daisy.” In Korman's story, the beautiful people all play on the football team. Rick Paradis, the story's dyspeptic narrator, succinctly defines his social rank: “I was the kicker and the backup QB. Todd's second violin. Story of my life. But Jake Garrett, a new student who manages to win a coveted position on the football team and establish himself in a matter of days as the Zeus of cool with his unrivaled house parties, threatens Todd's Olympic position. As one character says: “The guy is like a walking zone where events take place. “Every year the young salmon swim upstream, fight...... middle of paper ...... get killed when the men have left, leaving The status of free agent of Todd is intact. »(Pg. 84). “The pathetic amount of resistance offered by our defense? If all of his anger could be channeled into a tackle or two, it was worth the risk of putting him out among the humans. » Writing a tribute to a literary masterpiece is always a risky proposition; it invariably invites comparison. But given my own lukewarm adolescent reaction to The Great Gatsby, I'm willing to bet that Jake, reinvented, though flawed, might just speak more successfully than Gatsby to high schoolers about the nature of thwarted ambition and unrequited love. These are all great reasons why the theme is that people can obsess over one small thing and get lost in something completely unimportant. That's why I think the theme is that people can obsess over one small thing and get lost in something completely unimportant..