![]() ![]() She tries to improve his sense of humor by telling him jokes. Louise likes Call because she can gossip freely with him. Unlike Call, Louise is tall, blonde, and beautiful. She has a best friend, McCall “Call” Purnell, who is a year older, plain looking, rarely emotional, wears glasses, and is on the chunky side. The narrator, thirteen-year-old Sara Louise Bradshaw (who goes by her middle name, Louise) talks about helping her father with crab fishing in the summer of 1941. Rass Island is a peculiar crab fishing town on Chesapeake Bay. The themes of Jacob Have I Loved (1980) include favoritism, fate, and forgiveness. ![]() ![]() Paterson is also well known for Bridge to Terabithia (1977). Paterson wrote the book after reading a history of Chesapeake Bay near Maryland and wanting to place a story in the area. The title comes from the bible verse, “As it is written, Jacob have I loved, but Esau have I hated” (Romans 9:13). The children’s book won the Newbery Medal, the top honor for young people’s literature. Acclaimed American author Katherine Paterson’s Jacob Have I Loved (1980) follows one girl’s feelings of being less loved than her twin sister. ![]()
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