Brent Clarke is not a main character, but a critical part of the plot of my novel Superchicken. He’s a farm boy and a child who dreams of growing up to be a hero. He can’t wait to get out of the little town he lives in, but he realizes that he has a certain responsibility to the other kids in town because of his dreams of the future. He is one of the founding members of the boys’ gang they decide to call the Norwall Pirates. It is basically a liars’ club, and spends all of its time making up stories of the wonderful things they wish they had really done. Along the way he has to battle a little bit of evil in a large black tom cat that has taking to killing chickens on the Clarke farm. He becomes a leader because Milt Morgan, the Merlin to Brent’s Arthur, appoints him as such. He is at first a bully and an obstacle to the story’s main character, Edward-Andrew, nicknamed the Superchicken. He has to learn not to be cruel to those less blessed than he, and he eventually shoulders the burden of protecting others and working together with the Superchicken to right wrongs and be a super hero… of sorts. You can see by the Paffooney that he is a handsome boy, strong willed and very independent. But he does have a softer side that eventually helps him to become the police officer type hero he always intended to be.
Catch a Falling Star 