Give A Boy A Gun – Characters
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Chelsea Baker — new student on the Middletown high school
Citation: It’s like, are you in the popular crowd or not?
Beth Bender — teacher on the Middletown high school.
Brendan was called in her office one day. He says just about “yes, ma’amed” and “no, ma’amed”. Yes ma’am, everything is fine. No ma’am, I don’t have a problem with anyone. But you could see the pain and anger in his eyes.
Citation: What Brendan and Gary did was terribly, horribly, inexcusably wrong. I have no interest in defending them. But deep in my heart there is a little piece of me that at least understands what might have driven them to such a horrendous, evil undertaking. But what those boys did was equally inexcusable and evil.
Brett Betzig — Brendan’s friend in Springfield.
Citation: One thing about Brendan: He hated injustice (Page 22)
Deidre Bunson — student on the Middletown high school
Paul Burns — Football player.
Citation: One day in class we were talking about morality, and Brendan said there was no God. He didn’t say that he didn’t believe in God. He just said there was no God. (Because of the injustice in the world, he thinks that a God can’t exist) (Page 56)
Ryan Clancy — Ryan is one of Gary and Brendan’s closest friends and he is an outsider, too. Take for example the case of the football-training where Ryan sneaked to the outsiders (page 38).
Ryan is in the book a differently example for reacting to mobbing because he doesn’t answer to it with violence. Ryan has payback fantasies, too like his friends, but unlike Gary and Brendan he can make a difference between reality and suggestion (page 61).
I think Ryan’s statements for example the reduction of Gary and Brendan by the football players are very lively because he says on page 48 ,,you are walking down the hall, minding your own business. You see this guy, and he just sneers at you and says, “Hey faggot.” Thing is, to him it is nothing. Two seconds later he is probably forgotten he even said it. But it is burned in your brain. It is permanent scar. A week later you are still asking yourself, why had he have to do that? Why had he have to pick you? Does everyone think you are faggot? Maybe you are a faggot and you don’t even know it etc”
Kit Conner — Brendan’s neighbour in Springfield
Allen Curry — Chief of the Middletown high school
Citation: It’s horrible when kids are killed in schools. It’s a nightmare. Obviously, after what happened, I should know. But if you want to save kids lives, you will save a lot more by raising the driving age than banning guns.
F. Douglas Ellin — New Biology teacher on the Middletown high school.
One Day Brendan was called a fagot from Sam Flach in front of Mr. Ellin. He tells Brendan, that he shouldn’t take it personally and didn’t done anything else.
Citation: Like all other animals, we are born with instincts and a genetic blueprint of what we must do to survive.
Allison Findley — Allison Findley is Gary’s girlfriend. She and her family moved to Middletown in fifth grade (p. 15). She often came to school in dirty clothes, with dirty hair and sometimes, to be blunt, she smelled. She was a bit overweight and also very well developed. The other girls treated her not so good. (p.71)
Citation: Gary says: Hey, doesn’t matter, I’m just a loser.
Gary thought it was all a big joke anyway. He always said life was an accident.
Face it, there are two sets of rules: one for those who are in favour and one for those who aren’t.
No one is naДЇve enough to believe that violent movies or television or video games can actually make anyone commit a violent act.
When you are with someone a lot, they can change, but it is gradual, so you are not always aware of it.
Gary said: he really, really did want them to die slow, painful, miserable deaths.
If you act different or dress different, you are automatically suspect.
Sam Flach — Sam is the leader of the football-team, he is a brutal, inconsiderate and stupid muscleman. In his imagination the outsiders are enemies because they don’t like football. He makes especially Brendan’s life a misery, and he often knocks Brendan out coldly. Sam is not self-critical at all because he says on page 58/59,, those guys, especially Brendan, it was like he always wanted to start something like he went out of his way to ask for it”.
Even in the end of the story he is not willing to see his own faults because he says on page 152 ,,Did I do anything