Dear Martin
Justyce McCallister
Static and Dynamic
Melo Taylor
Officer Castillo
Dr. Martin Luther King, JR
Manny Rivers
Dr. Jarius "Doc" Dray
Sarah - Jane Friedman
Jared Christensen
protagonist and major character
Justyce is a quiet kind of person who kinda just takes the back seat and Socio Evo, when everyone is talking about racism, he kind of steps in but not really that much because he does not want to interfere.
Flat and Static
Major character, Protagoist
Flat and Static
Major character, Protagonist
Round and Static
Major Character, antagonist
Round and Static
Minor character and antagonist
Round and Static
Major characrer, protagonist
Round and Static
Major character
Round and Static
Major character, Protagonist
One of his hobbys is reading. He also likes to write letters to Dr. Martin.
One of his intersts is studying and being prepared for upcoming events.
Manny is a sweet boy who is very loyal to justyce and has many other friends who he very much appreciates.
Manny was Justyces best friend and he was always with Justyce every step of the way.
Kyle Berkley and Tyler Clepp
Blake Benson
Mama
Grrett Tison
Quan Banks
Julius Rivers
At the end, Justyce goes to Yale and ends up dating SJ and he visits Manny's grave a lot.
Justyce's best friend Manny gets shot and dies, and Justyce gets shot as well, but he doesn't die, he jst gets injured. He ends up going to Manny's funeral and then Manny's parents gve him something that was supposed to be for Manny but he has a hard time excepting it.
Justyce almost gets arrested and is put on trial but then the guy who accused him of something died and he was no longer guilty for anything.
Justyce has a hard time accepting what is going on around him and he has to turn to Doc and SJ for support and he eventaully learns to accept everything and live with it.
Doc is Justyce's Socio Evo teacher and he helps Justyce throigh a lot of things that he has oing on in his lofe at the moment.
He goes to Justyce's dorm and tries to help him byt talking to him to understand that there is still so much more to life than what he thinks and that he can still go out and have fun.
Flat, Round
Minor character, protaginist
Julous really supports Justyce and wnats him to suceed in eberything that he does.
Julius likes to make people feel better and make them feel loved.
Flat, Static
She gets drunk and runs into Jusytce and then she has to ge help from Justyce.
Her and justyce are on and off eith their relationship a lot and then they eventually break up for good.
She shows up at Justyces school and she sees Justyce with SJ and then she gets really jealous.
Melo is also kind of self centered and a lot to handle.
minor chracter, protagonist
Quan gives information to Justyce about a gang and helps him out.
Julius was manny's dad and when he found out that Manny was dea , he was devistated and he then thought of Justyce as his second son.
Quan id in juvie for a lot of bad things that he did.
in the end of the book, he is still in juvie for all of his actions that he did.
In the end of the book, doc still supports Justyce and is still the Socio Evo teacher at Bras Prep.
In the end of the book, Julius lives happily with his wife and supports Justyce with everything he does.
In the end of the book, Melo is still the same Melo.
Static, Flat
Minor charatcer, antagonist
They get into a figh with Justyce and Manny at Blake's party.
Justyce gets accused of hitting them or somehting later on in a trial and they did get into some violence at Blake's party.
In the end of the book, they are accused of nothing and they go on eith their lives.
Jared was a friend of Mannys but he made bad decisions.
Castillo tried to arrest Justyce at the beggining of the book becasue when Justyce was trying to help Melo get into her car so he could drive her home, Castillo thought that he was doing something bad and tried to arrest him.
Officer Castillo is very racist.
He judged Justyces actions just because he was a differnt race.
Round, Static
Minor character, anatgonist
Garrett is te officer that shot Manny and Justyce and killed Manny.
He had died soon after the first trial that Justyce was put on.
He claimed that he should not be accused of anything becasue Msnny snd Justyce were the ones who didn't listen to him.
In the end of the book, he dies and all of the trials end.
in the end of the book, he really is never in contact with Justyce or anyone ever again.
SJ is Justyces debate parter and she kind of had a crush on Justyce.
SJ is a very sweet girl who tries to help Justyce with anything that he is struggling with.
SJ gets into a college that is very close to the college that Justyce id goin to, which is Yale.
SJ is mixed and she is very smart and loves to do debates.
In the end of the book, SJ ends up dating Justyce and she goes off t college, and is very happy being with Justyce.
SJ is a very good friend of Justyces and really sipported Justyce through a lot.
Jared was one of the giys who came up with the idea of dressing up like how they did for halloween.
He got into trouble a lot. He also got the guys into a little troulble to.
In the end of the book, he is just the same guy.
He would always try to cheer Justyce up when he was feeling down.
He wen to Blakes party with Justyceand they both got drunk and into a little fight.
When him and Justyce went out to take a drive, he was playing music and he apparently was playing it too loud, and then officer Garrett got mad and ended up shootinh him and Justyce and Manny got killed.
In the end of the book, he was dead but Justyce visited his grave a lot and Justyce missed him very much and wished that he was still here with him.
Round, Static
Protagonist, major character
Mom wasn't realy there for Justcye a lot.
She did not approve of Justyce dating SJ becasue she was mixed and not of the same race.
Whilst at the court house right before the trial, mom didn't want Justyce to answer certain questions because she thought that it would be giving away too much info, but Justyce had to stand up for himslef and tell her that he was old enough to make his own decisions.
In the end of the book, she lets Jusyce go off to college and still does not aproove of Justyce dating SJ.
Justyce wrote letters to martin and hoped that he coul think of what Martin would do to help him through his lie situations.
Justyce eventually gave up on writing letters to martin because he realized thta he needed to do certain things on his own.
In the end of the book, Justyce ended up writing only a few letters to Martin.
Protagonist, Minor character
Static flat
Blake was one of Mannys good friends.
He threw a party at his house and for Manny and Justyce, that was not a good idea becasue a fight happened.
In the end of the book, he stayed the same and missed Manny just as much as everyone else.