Charlie The Warrens Chapter Summaries

Charlie Gaines lives with his single mother in L.A. because his father abandoned him when he was an infant. Charlie is now 12 years old. Charlie’s friends call him Brain and for a good reason to.

Charlie gets this nickname because Charlie is very Brainy when it comes to football. Charlie isn’t a straight “A” student but he spends most of his time studying football stats and players. Charlie loves the game of football, so if he isn’t analyzing the it he is playing it except he doesn’t believe he is very good; although Anna and others say he is pretty good.

Charlie’s best friend is Anna. According to the author (Mike Lupica on pg.18) Anna is the only person who loves football as much as Charlie. They’re prized team is the L.A. Bulldogs. Which

Anna’s Grandfather, Joe Warren, just so happens to own. This may have something to do with why they like the Bulldogs so much but that doesn’t really matter.

Charlie and Joe become pretty good friends towards the middle of the story. I believe that Joe and Charlie became such good friends because Charlie is the only person that doesn’t treat Joe Warren like a little kid and tell him what he wants to hear he tells him the truth. For this reason Joe chooses to talk to Charlie often because he likes that very much about him.

Overall Charlie is one of my favorite characters in the book.

It is fun to read about the things he is able to predict while playing football. That is one of my favorite parts in the book!

Chapter 3: The Warrens
Besides Charlie the Warrens play the biggest role in this story. The Warrens are a very wealthy family, in fact, they are so wealthy that they own a football team that they built from the ground up in L.A. bringing pro football back to Los Angeles.
Besides Charlie, Joe Warren is my favorite character! Joe Warren is the owner of the L.A. Bulldogs. The Bulldogs as you may know are Charlie’s favorite team. This may have something to do with why Charlie and Joe get along so well, but that is never said in the book.
Joe is portrayed as a very nice character in this book. I believe this is why Joe is such a likeable character. On the other hand his son, Matt, is very hated throughout Los Angeles. This is mostly because he is known to make bad decisions when it comes to football being the G.M. or the Bulldogs. For this reason Joe wasn't displayed as such a likeable character (this can also be seen on pg.18).
Overall the Warrens are a good family. They are pretty much the epicenter of the story. Besides Charlie and the

Bulldogs.
Chapter 4: Football
Football plays the biggest role in the story, for it not being a human anyway. I’m sure this is easy to tell because the whole story and pretty much everything I’ve wrote has something to do with football.
To me football symbolizes a lot in this story. For example football can symbolize that you don’t deserve it if you’re nothing without it (this is said on pg. 53). There are a lot of other minor things that could be symbolized in the this story. But that is the biggest.
I, as an athlete, understand this. It means a lot to me to be able to play football and to wrestle. But if I were to get injured and not be able to play anymore, I would still mean something.
Another example of what football symbolizes in this story in this story is that practice makes perfect. In this story Charlie always talks about how bad he is. But throughout the story you can read about him getting better and better.
I can also relate to this. I have wrestled since 2nd grade and my first couple years I was really bad, but now I’m pretty good after years of practice.
Football is the biggest symbol I could find in this story. I’m glad about this because I can very easily relate to it. 
Chapter 5: The Bulldogs
The L.A. Bulldogs are owned by Joe Warren. His son, Matt, is the general manager. The Bulldogs are not an actual NFL team, but the other teams in this book are.
My best way of describing the Bulldogs would be that they are pretty much the Cleveland Browns and if you know who they are then you know that that is bad! This changes after a huge controversy with Charlie, but let's not get into that quite yet. First let me give you a little more info on the Bulldogs.
After the L.A. Rams left Los Angeles and went to St. Louis there was no more professional football in Los Angeles. This led Joe to building the Bulldogs franchise from the ground up. All of the football fans in L.A. were so excited when they heard about this. Well they were until they found out how much of a bust they were. You learn this very early in the book (on pg. 13). At this point in the book you know that Joe and Matt are widely hated.
Now lets get back into where Charlie jumps into the plot of the Bulldogs. Now you know that Charlie and Joe have formed a bond of some sort and trust each other. When Charlie was talking to Joe, Charlie had brought up Tom Pinkett. Tom Pinkett is a veteran quarterback whose stats was starting to get better. This led Joe to signing Tom and this caused people to go crazy when they found out why the Bulldogs had done this.
The controversy was quickly put to rest because of Joe. He organized a press conference and had Charlie speak there. When the media finally had a chance to interview Charlie they dropped it and never really talked about it again.

Chapter 6: Fanfiction Short Story- What would have happened without Charlie

Matt Warren was tired of getting booed. He needed to make a winning team. He decided he was going to start searching for the perfect quarterback.
He started by studying each and every possible candidate. Now this took a long time. Nearly 5 days to be exact. After he was done studying he began to start making calls and sending some emails to see if anyone was interested.
One of these quarterbacks really stuck out to him though and his name was Tom Pinkett. A veteran quarterback thats’ stats had been increasing this season. Matt had decided to call him at about 3:30. “Hello, Tom this is Matt Warren. You have really stuck out to me and I would like to have an interview with you. I believe you could be very good for us”. Tom agreed to the interview and set a time for that Thursday.
Matt was so excited. This was it, he thought. But he knew he needed to wait because this wasn’t a for sure deal. So he waited till Thursday.
Finally Thursday came around. Tom and Matt met at a small cafe. They had a long conversation about what Tom thought about the Bulldogs and how he thought that he could make them better. Tom had seemed to show interest in the Bulldogs and once they had parted ways Matt knew this was it.
Tom ended up signing with the Bulldogs and leading them to their first winning record. The Bulldogs extended Tom’s contract to a 5 year deal. And went on to having winning records all of those seasons.