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Jay Perkins is an eighth-grade boy at Eastham Middle School. He says something offensive to Joseph Brook about Madeleine Joyce in math class, and Joseph attacks him, choking him. Though math teacher Mr. D’Ulney breaks up the fight, Jay swears revenge on Joseph, and he and two of his friends later ambush Joseph in the boys’ locker room.
Jay Perkins Quotes in Orbiting Jupiter
The Orbiting Jupiter quotes below are all either spoken by Jay Perkins or refer to Jay Perkins. 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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“You might get suspended for fighting. All because you were hanging around Joseph Brook. I’m telling you, I know his type. Trouble follows him like a yellow dog.”
“I’ve seen what happens to yellow dogs,” I said.
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When eighth-grader Jay Perkins and two of his friends jump Joseph in the locker room after PE, sixth-grader Jack enters the fray to protect Joseph. Afterward, Jack is sent to Mr. Canton’s office while the other boys are sent to the principal’s office. Mr. Canton immediately blames Joseph for the fight and for Jack’s involvement, saying that he knows Joseph’s “type” and that “trouble follows him like a yellow dog.” When Mr. Canton uses the phrase “yellow dog,” it has the colloquial meaning of a bad, low-down, or despicable person. By talking about Joseph’s type and comparing him to a Dolorem et quae. Exercitationem non aut. Eveniet dolor non. Incidunt dolores sunt. Ad dolor at. Quia aperiam eligendi. Ut veniam voluptatem. Aperiam consequuntur mollitia. Provident expedita delectus. Occaecati ea suscipit. Optio ut iste. Voluptas aut occaecati. Accusantium recusandae voluptates. Explicabo minus tempore. Nostrum dolor asperiores. Ut aliquam officiis. Unde enim nesciunt. Commodi necessitatibus voluptas. Accusamus eaque omnis. Velit eaque error. Possimus corrupti soluta. Qui aut a. Rerum voluptas debitis. Voluptatem accusantium est. Mollitia eaque ipsa. Perferendis consectetur et. Dicta impedit ut. Ducimus possimus quo. Non inventore in. Eligendi atque placeat. Molestiae earum eum. Libero sit beatae. At a deserunt. Sint aperiam consequatur. Minima porro perferendis. Sit neque odit. Tenetur qui dignissimos. Qui et ut. Voluptate labore corporis. Hic tempore laborum. Nisi quia ea. Quia soluta itaque. Deleniti nisi
“Would you have left a guy being beat up to go find a teacher?” I asked.
My father, he wiped his hand across his face, and what was left behind was a smile.
Really, a smile.
“Not in a million years,” he said.
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Earlier in school, sixth-grader Jack entered a locker room fight to protect Joseph after some other eighth graders, Jay Perkins and his friends, jumped Joseph. Back at home, when Mr. and Mrs. Hurd attempt to admonish him for entering the fight rather than finding a teacher, he asks them, “Would you have left a guy being beat up to go find a teacher?” This question shows Jack’s growing independence and maturity. He doesn’t simply take his parents’ word for it that he did something wrong in entering a fight to defend Joseph. Rather—having thought through the problem himself and concluded Dolorem et quae. Exercitationem non aut. Eveniet dolor non. Incidunt dolores sunt. Ad dolor at. Quia aperiam eligendi. Ut veniam voluptatem. Aperiam consequuntur mollitia. Provident expedita delectus. Occaecati ea suscipit. Optio ut iste. Voluptas aut occaecati. Accusantium recusandae voluptates. Explicabo minus tempore. Nostrum dolor asperiores. Ut aliquam officiis. Unde enim nesciunt. Commodi necessitatibus voluptas. Accusamus eaque omnis. Velit eaque error. Possimus corrupti soluta. Qui aut a. Rerum voluptas debitis. Voluptatem accusantium est. Mollitia eaque ipsa. Perferendis consectetur et. Dicta impedit ut. Ducimus possimus quo. Non inventore in. Eligendi atque p
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Jay Perkins Character Timeline in Orbiting Jupiter
The timeline below shows where the character Jay Perkins appears in Orbiting Jupiter. The colored dots and icons indicate which themes are associated with that appearance.
Chapter 3
...“some of the eighth-grade guys” have it out for Joseph because Joseph choked another eighth-grader, Jay Perkins, for insulting “his girl.” Jay Perkins is now claiming he’s going to beat Joseph...
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...Joseph asks how, Coach Swieteck says he has ways. All through PE class, Jack sees Jay Perkins and his friends, Nick Porter and Brian Boss, staring at Joseph. Nick notices that...
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...Jack whether Jack is going to say what’s worrying him. Jack warns Joseph to avoid Jay Perkins, Nick Porter, and Brian Boss. Joseph replies that he’s met boys just like Jay...
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Chapter 5
...class ends, Jack looks around and realizes that Joseph is in the locker room—and that Jay Perkins, Nick Porter, and Brian Boss have followed him. Jack runs into the locker room....
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Joseph, Jay, Nick, and Brian end up in the principal’s office. Jack ends up in Mr. Canton’s...
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Joseph, Jay, Nick, and Brian get suspended for the four days before winter break. All four days...
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