'The Importance Of Characters In Kick'

Characters play a very important role in any novel. They way they act can change the shape of the story. In the soccer novel Kick by Walter Dean Meyers and Ross workman who is a fan of Walter’s work they show us what can happen to strict cop, Sergeant Brown when he is sent to mentor 13 year old soccer star Kevin Johnson who made a simple mistake to help his friend after the father of his friend decides that he will probably press charges. He steals a car and drives around with his friend and is caught and is put in jail. He has to spend one night but is able to get out early before his trial. Kevin is the son of a police officer who was shot recently during the story. Sgt. Brown learns empathy from taking the job from the Judge to go help the kid since he knows that he is the son of a fallen officer, when he talks to the parents who are pressing charges and when he comes to support him at the state cup final early. Sgt. is a very clean cut man. he is also was high school friends with the judge that gave him the assignment. They were friends through athletics and were very good and were top of the …show more content…
They are very serious felonies if they are pressed. he attempts to make contact with the father and is successful. They decide to meet at a diner that always is friendly(sort of like the Montclair Diner as described) “I wanted to know what and who i was dealing with and how serious the case was going to be. If McNamara was definetly going to press charges, then the criminal aspect of the case was going to be the most important.”(27) This shows empathy for Kevin because he is doing a massive favor attempting to find out what he can do to have the charges dropped. He refused to admit it but it was healvily implied during the quote above when he wants to know what he is dealing with and how he can prevent the charges from being