EPIPHANYYY!!

"Walking across the square to the hotel everything looked new and changed. I had never seen the trees before. I had never seen the flagpoles before, or the front of the theatre. It was all different. I felt as I felt once coming home from an out-of-town football game."

Even though I am sure it hurt, I am very glad Jake got hit by Robert. Yes, I know violence is not the answer, but after he was in the fight, he spoke the words above. To me, it is almost like Jake got some sense knocked into him. The first think I thought of when I read this paragraph was that the lightbulb finally went off inside Jake's head. After this happened he went back to Montoya's hotel to sleep for the evening while the rest of the "gang" stayed out and partied for the evening. Maybe, just maybe this is the beginning of the new Jake. Perhaps he will realize all the foolish choices he has been making and then evaluate his relationships with everyone accompanying him on the journey. Hopefully this incident will force Jake to transform into the person we, the audience, are all hoping he will become.