Answer: Faxon is accustomed to not having much money.
Here's one that might help.
"He knew he could not stand a chance against Jermaine in a fight," - This shows how maybe in the future in this book, he may or may not lose a fight with Jermaine.
The process of doing research and drawing details from multiple sources in order to form a main idea is called thesis-building. A thesis is a clear, main argument that pulls together all of the ideas of one's paper, using research and original ideas.