# Jack — The Innocents Abroad character guide > Jack in The Innocents Abroad by Mark Twain. **Role:** supporting **Also known as:** Jack, himself, your **First appearance:** 0005-iii ## Snapshot A lanky young voyager who clings to his buckskin-seated pantaloons and his father's parting lecture on drawing-room propriety, cheerfully violating both. ## Who they are Jack is the excursion's resident spectacle: pea jacket, tasseled red fez, and those immortal buckskin trousers, standing on the forecastle while his father's warning about refined company goes pointedly unheeded. He is game for anything — first ashore at Alexandria, haggling with donkey boys, skirmishing when the commissary runs thin — and his slangy irreverence keeps the pilgrimage from turning solemn. He matters because his unembarrassed boyishness measures the gap between the tour's genteel advertising and the trip as actually lived. ## In the story ### [The Innocents Abroad](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_innocents_abroad_se/chapters/the-innocents-abroad) One of the narrator's traveling companions, mentioned in the early chapters. ### [IV](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_innocents_abroad_se/chapters/iv) A young pilgrim who enthusiastically starts a journal but soon abandons it, finding the task tedious. ### [VIII](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_innocents_abroad_se/chapters/viii) Goes to change a napoleon and returns saying he 'swamped the bank' with the amount of coin received. ### [IX](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_innocents_abroad_se/chapters/ix) Uses slang term 'skirmish' to describe pilgrims foraging for food. ### [Fourth of July at Sea and Arrival in Marseilles](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_innocents_abroad_se/chapters/x) Briefly mentioned as being bothered by the Doctor's jargon. ### [XIII](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_innocents_abroad_se/chapters/xiii) Mentioned as part of the group. ### [XVI](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_innocents_abroad_se/chapters/xvi) Implied as part of the group touring Versailles. ### [Genoa the Superb](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_innocents_abroad_se/chapters/xvii) Mentioned as being in Switzerland, absent from the ship. ### [XX](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_innocents_abroad_se/chapters/xx) Implied as part of the group; not explicitly named but present in the 'we'. ### [XXII](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_innocents_abroad_se/chapters/xxii) Implied as part of the group; the narrator addresses 'Roderigo Gonzales Michelangelo' as a gondolier, but Jack is not directly mentioned. ### [Ascent of Vesuvius](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_innocents_abroad_se/chapters/xxx) Implied presence among the party during the excursions. ### [XXXII](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_innocents_abroad_se/chapters/xxxii) One of the boys on deck who questions the Doctor about Scylla and Charybdis. ### [XXXIII](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_innocents_abroad_se/chapters/xxxiii) Mentioned as part of the traveling party, though not directly quoted in this chapter. ### [XXXIV](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_innocents_abroad_se/chapters/xxxiv) Repeatedly says 'I pass' during the unsanitary Turkish lunch, refusing to eat. ### [XXXV](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_innocents_abroad_se/chapters/xxxv) Mentioned as the roommate whose passport the narrator uses after losing his own. ### [XXXIX](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_innocents_abroad_se/chapters/xxxix) Mentioned as one of the 'elders of the ship’s family' who argued about the location of the Seven Churches. ### [XL](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_innocents_abroad_se/chapters/xl) Mentioned in the legend as one of the Seven Sleepers (Jack). ### [XLII](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_innocents_abroad_se/chapters/xlii) Referenced as part of the group that simplified the name Temnin-el-Foka to 'Jacksonville'. ### [XLIII](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_innocents_abroad_se/chapters/xliii) Walks with the narrator for three or four miles leading their lame horses. ### [Damascus: The Eternal City](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_innocents_abroad_se/chapters/xliv) Bathes with the narrator in the ice-cold fountain of Figia. ### [XLV](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_innocents_abroad_se/chapters/xlv) Part of the party of eight travelers described as a 'fantastic mob of green-spectacled Yanks' with flapping elbows and bobbing umbrellas. ### [Dan, Bashan, and the Waters of Merom](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_innocents_abroad_se/chapters/xlvi) Implied as part of the traveling group. ### [XLVII](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_innocents_abroad_se/chapters/xlvii) Suffers from sun exposure, throws a clod at a turtle, and questions the Colonel's claim about turtles singing. ### [XLIX](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_innocents_abroad_se/chapters/xlix) Implied as part of the group; the narrator refers to 'eight armed Christians' including himself and presumably Jack. ### [LI](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_innocents_abroad_se/chapters/li) Implied among the pilgrims who show revolvers and cause difficulties. ### [LII](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_innocents_abroad_se/chapters/lii) Mentioned as part of the pilgrim group; no specific actions in this chapter. ### [LIV](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_innocents_abroad_se/chapters/liv) Jack is part of the group, mentioned as one of the pilgrims who questions the guide about the stones crying out. ### [LVI](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_innocents_abroad_se/chapters/lvi) Caught and bruised by passing camels and asses on the narrow bridle-path. ### [LVII](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_innocents_abroad_se/chapters/lvii) Wears a distinctive costume including buckskin pantaloons and a fez; goes ashore with the narrator in Alexandria. ### [Chapter LVIII](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_innocents_abroad_se/chapters/lviii) Mourns the lost comrade in the smoking-room with Moult. ### [Going Home](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_innocents_abroad_se/chapters/lix) Harry (likely Jack) catches a hawk blown on board. ## Links - HTML: https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_innocents_abroad_se/characters/jack - Book: https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_innocents_abroad_se - All characters: https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_innocents_abroad_se/characters