Jake is Dibs’s family’s gardener. Jake is very kind to Dibs: when Dibs’s father asks Jake to trim a tree outside Dibs’s window, Jake saves the tip of the branch because he knows that Dibs liked to touch the branch. He also tells Dibs stories, like that of the last leaf on the tree which flew around the world and came back to tell Dibs about where it went. In his therapy sessions with Dr. Axline, Dibs explains that Jake had a heart attack and doesn’t often come around the house anymore. Nevertheless, Axline recognizes the value of the empathy that Jake showed Dibs.
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The Dibs in Search of Self quotes below are all either spoken by Jake or refer to Jake. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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“I keep that leaf,” he said. “It is very tired and very old. But I keep that leaf. I mounted it and framed it. And I imagine some of the things it must have seen, flying all around the world with the wind. And I read in my books about the countries it saw.”
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Jake Quotes in Dibs in Search of Self
The Dibs in Search of Self quotes below are all either spoken by Jake or refer to Jake. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Chapter 11
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“I keep that leaf,” he said. “It is very tired and very old. But I keep that leaf. I mounted it and framed it. And I imagine some of the things it must have seen, flying all around the world with the wind. And I read in my books about the countries it saw.”
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