Jim and Me

  In the book Jim and Me I think the authors purpose is to show that you can't change history. Many times throughout the book they try and change the past but fail. For example, they went back in time to 1912 to try and prevent Jim Thorpe's medals from being taken away. But by the time they got there it was too late because the Olympics were over and the medals already got taken from him.Another example of how you can't change history is when Bobby got the idea of taken Jim Thorpe home with them so he could start his life over. But since Jim Thorpe was Bobby's great grandfather, if they took him to the present day then he wouldn't have kids which means his kids wouldn't have kids which means when they get there Bobby wouldn't be born. So they decided not to take Jim Thorpe to the present day with them and realized there was nothing they could do about Jim's medals being taken away.