memoir Jack is shown as an easily manipulated child, Tobias Wolff tries to show throughout the memoir that the quote, “we originate nothing within” is only true when you believe it’s true. At the end of the memoir, Jack’s impulse comes from inside, not from someone else. Although he gets into prep school under false documents, he does get in, because he started to believe that he could do it himself. He wanted to leave Concrete and he did. ...
