Defending Jacob 1

If Andy is a district attorney, he should have some knowledge about putting clues together. When everyone was all gathered to remember Ben at his house in grief, Jacob was not polite like everyone else was. "My own son, Jacob, sat in a low chair, lank and gangly, apart from others. He gazed into his cell phone screen, uninterested in the conversations around him."  (pg. 11)  Also, before McCormick Middle School opened again after 5 days of being closed, Jacob's mom, Laurie, asked him if he was nervous or scared to go back. His response was short and quick. "I don't feel like talking."   (pg 25)  He could have just made something up, but instead he put up a fight.  Finally, at the end of chapter 5 when Andy found the knife in Jacob's top drawer he described the knife the exact same way the holes in Ben's chest were described in the murder. In my opinion, Andy has a feeling that something is up, but he doesn't think that his own son was the one who did it. Also, Jacob is his only child and it is all he has in life, so he does the wrong thing and keeps everything he knows a secret, just like his son is.