Representations of two males and females in bullet boy

Shea (Ricky' girlfriend)- Shea is a fairly quiet weak character who doesn't really try to stop Ricky from falling back into a life of crime if anything she supports it by allowing him to be integrated back into the group of people who landed him in prison the first time, as we see when Shea takes Ricky to the party and allows him to leave with Wisdom who helped land him in prison the first time around. This is very different compared to Beverley' approach because Shea doesn't try to stop him from getting himself back into trouble.

Beverley (Ricky' mother)- In contrast to Shea, Beverly takes a more direct approach to Ricky to try and force him to stop with his violent tendencies which leads to him rebelling against his mother which unfortunately leads to his death, for example when she tells him to stay and have his tea but he refuses if he had stayed he wouldn't have got caught up with Wisdom trying to shoot Godfrey. This has a high contrast with Shea because Beverley tries to help Ricky rather than leave him to his own demise.

Ricky- Ricky is represented as a stereotypical black Caribbean young adult however following some terrible stereotypes such as black people being associated with guns and violence and winding up in prison. However we do see some inner conflict in Ricky as we see how much he wants to escape that life and he does try his best to remove himself but he owes Wisdom his life so he feels he can't not help him. We also see how he is trying to escape that life with how he is trying to run away it may not be the best idea but it will get him out of the situations he gets dragged into.

Curtis (Ricky' brother)- Curtis seems to already be wanting to not be involved with the life of crime. We see this when he refuses to take the illegal drugs off of his friend also when we see them go to shoot the white horse he tries to stop him maybe because of the white signifying innocence and purity and he isn't quite ready to lose that part of him. Also we see the similarities in Curtis' and Ricky's situation after Curtis shoots his friend he now owes him a life debt, a life debt to someone who overly resembles a young Wisdom.