Fortune Favors the Bold
- For his December paragraph about the precept "Fortune favors the bold," Jack avoids writing that the bravest thing he ever did was to become friends with August. He is afraid he might have to read his piece aloud, or have it pinned to the bulletin board where everyone could see it, so he makes up some other dumb thing.
- He wonders what August wrote about because, he thinks, "he probably had a lot of things to choose from" (4.Fortune Favors the Bold.3).