@Badtimepacifist
Or,
It may just give you some details.
Joel is self-absorbed, ungrateful, and constantly disrespects his parents. When he hits a child wandering outside in the night while he's speeding on the road, he decides to not help the child or tell anyone what happened so he won't jeopardize his own future, and tries to justify it by blaming the child for being outside after midnight and outright tells himself that one stupid kid isn't worth a potential criminal record.
Yeah, he not really a good person.