Lonnie Character Analysis

Lonnie is a student at Nickel Academy. A menacing boy, he spends his time with Black Mike and Griff, forming a fearsome trio that harasses the other students. When Elwood walks into the bathroom on his second night at Nickel, he finds Lonnie and Black Mike ganging up on a younger boy named Corey. He tries to intervene, but Black Mike throws him against the sink, at which point another boy walks into the bathroom and yells, attracting a houseman’s attention. That night, Spencer and Earl take Lonnie, Black Mike, Corey, and Elwood to the White House and beat them one by one. Later, Turner tells Elwood that he shouldn’t have intervened, suggesting that Corey frequently and willingly endures Lonnie and Black Mike’s abuse before taking them into a bathroom stall and giving them oral sex.