The Role of Physical Violence in Roman's Life

I think that the abusive shoulder stitch hug subdued him. You know, Roman has a history of being abused. And what I took from this was that using physical violence with Roman reminds him to behave appropriately. Kendall is so obsessed about the prize. Everything is a play. He's really bad at scoring the goal. But he feels like Charlie Brown, that life is Lucy pulling the football away from him when in actual fact, he can't kick it straight.