As scary as Erik may first sound, is he as big, bad, and terrifying as the book tries to make him sound? While we do know that he is the cause of Paul’s lack of peripheral eyesight, he looted other people’s houses, and made fun of Mike Costello, who is dead, his importance in the story is quite small. In some chapters, for example, when he's going against the Lake Windsor Soccer Team, Erik is only talked about around a couple of times. What makes Erik even less terrifying is that we don't know his backstory very well. We do know that he is babied by his parents and that he is the stereotypical football star, but what made him like this? Does Erik also have a traumatic past that caused him to be so douchebaggy? How does Erik think?
