Secret Saturdays: Character Patterns

I am currently reading the book Secret Sundays by Torrey Maldonado. It's about the life of a middle school boy who lives in one of the bad parts in Brooklyn. He has to deal with many of the negatives that surround himin such a neighborhood, and on top of that his best friend has also fallen into the negatives of the streets that they live in. I will be writing about the different types of characters that affect him in the story.

The hero in the story is kind of conflicted between the characters in the book.Yet I would have to say that the hero of the story would be the main character Justin. I say this because Justin is the one who is losing his friends to the negatives of the world in this book. He's the hero for the fact that he'sacrificing his own time and himself just so he can get his best friend back, not the person he knows now as Sean. He's sacrificing himself, by taking the time to spy on him and see why he wasn't able to hangout with them in the first place. He's also not perfect for the fact that he complains Sean has been more mean towards other people than usual. Yet he's also taking Sean's side and dissing people and hurting other people's feelings at the same time. This makes him the hero.

I think definitely Justin's mom is the mentor for the fact that she is very helpful to Justin in doing the right things.  She's able to do this because of past experience that she had. Justin wants to confront Sean about him leaving  late at night and ditching their sleepovers that they're going to have. His mom tells him to confront him about it as soon as possible, because when Justin's dad was having an affair she never attempted to stop it until later. She ended losing her husband and her friend who was in the affair. She learned to confront people earlier. This shows her past experience teaching someone else.

The shadow would have to be definitely Sean. The whole problem in the story revolves around him for the fact that he's he one who has gone to the negative side. After the day Justin saw him going outside at 4, Sean became more easily pissed and more hurtful, this time he was more hurtful physically also. Sean got into a fist fight with this kid named Manny because Manny dissed him.Usually Sean would just diss him back, but this time Sean punched him in the face any times and attacked him a lot. He started saying more personal jokes to people  which is what Justin generally thinks made him meaner, and hard to be around. Sean is definitely he shadow, he brings more tension to the fact of his unexpectedness that he has.

Vanessa would have to be the shapeshifter, she seems to be the one that Sean talks to the most,Vanessa doesn't know these these problems around Sean because Sean is always trying to impress her and it seems to want to date her also. She's also on Justin's side because she also became a bit suspicious after Justin told her. Yet she was always with Sean before. So she's kind of caught in between of the two. Ultimately she goes on Justin's side though.

This book has many different types of characters besides the ones that I said. They all carry some form of difference in the book, that plays a big role to each other the fact that they're not all on board with each other.