Who is O'Dell from Rocket Boys: A Memoir and what is their importance? Rocket_Boys English & Literature O'Dell | Rocket Boys: A Memoir

O'Dell is a small and excitable boy with pale hair. He, like the other rocket boys, doesn't mind that Sonny's dad is the mine superintendent. O'Dell's father is a garbage man and has a garbage truck. O'Dell learns about or knows where he can find all kinds of potentially useful building materials and objects. He is the BCMA treasurer and in charge of rocket supplies. O'Dell assembles protective shields for the boys, made of baseball caps with clear squares of plastic as face guards, the materials rescued from some garbage, so that they are protected when they make rocket candy.