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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.
Lonnie Quotes in The Nickel Boys
The The Nickel Boys quotes below are all either spoken by Lonnie or refer to Lonnie. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Chapter Six Quotes
Corey got around seventy—Elwood lost his place a few times—and it didn’t make sense, why did the bullies get less than the bullied? Now he had no idea what he was in for. It didn’t make sense. Maybe they lost count, too. Maybe there was no system at all to the violence and no one, not the keepers nor the kept, knew what happened or why.
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Lonnie Character Timeline in The Nickel Boys
The timeline below shows where the character Lonnie appears in The Nickel Boys. The colored dots and icons indicate which themes are associated with that appearance.
Chapter Five
...says this. The boy’s name is Griff, and he’s intimidatingly large. Next to him sit Lonnie and Black Mike, both of whom are just as menacing as their friend. All of...
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...his plan to speed through the ranks goes awry later that evening when he sees Lonnie and Black Mike beating up a younger kid named Corey in the bathroom. “Hey,” Elwood...
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Chapter Six
...and bring them to the White House. That night, a brown Chevy arrives for Elwood, Lonnie, Black Mike, and Corey. Elwood doesn’t know what exactly takes place in the White House,...
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Chapter Seven
In a low voice, Turner tells Elwood that he was wrong to interfere with what Lonnie and Black Mike were doing to Corey, claiming that Corey likes the abuse. “They play...
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