Roy Eberhardt Hoot

The character of Roy Eberhardt in Hoot by Carl Hiaasen is shaped by his social environment, which consists of his friends. Even as mostly an inexperienced person, I can, without reluctance, say I’ve had friends who affected me both positively and negatively. In Roy Eberhardt’s case, the author makes it evident that his friends -- Beatrice Leep and Mullet Fingers -- did not, in fact, impact him in a detrimental way, but instead in a more constructive way. His friends taught Roy Eberhardt to become more mature and develop his character as a young individual.
Roy, being the new kid in town, can’t connect to most of his classmates. There’s Garrett, of course, but he doesn’t have that much of a significance in Roy’s life. After Roy forms a bond

The world isn’t a place of happiness and honesty where people tell the truth no matter the consequences. It’s a dishonest place, with people who will take unethical routes to get what they want. Mullet Fingers and Beatrice Leep deal with corruption on a daily basis. For example, their mom kicked Mullet Fingers out of her house, reclaiming him only for selfish reasons. The Mother Paula’s All-American Pancake House, in addition, was willing to bribe officers to overlook that there were owls that had nested in the area it was being built in. Living in this world, corruption in politicians and other figures of authority is present, but most kids in middle school are not necessarily aware of it unless it’s glaringly obvious. Roy, because of Mullet Fingers and Beatrice, faces corruption and handles it better than most people his age would have. The experience of corruption and dishonesty that his friends introduced to Roy forces him to deal with real-world problems maybe a little too early, but it also prompts Roy to become more of a responsible and mature teen versus the relatively happy-go-lucky adolescent he used to