Sodapop - the Outsiders

The Outsiders display how adversity can help people find the real meaning of actions. Ponyboy thinks that Darry doesn’t care about him and believes he’s too strict as said in this passage “Me and Darry just don't dig each other. I could never please him… He never hollered at Sodapop, even when Soda dropped out of school or got tickets for speeding.

At the end of the book Ponyboy finally comes to terms with the deaths of Johnny and Dally, and he finally realizes that violence is not the answer when he makes up with Darry. Darry and Ponyboy are shouting at each other, and Ponyboy asks Sodapop to take his side. This causes Sodapop to rush out of the house, and Ponyboy and Darry chase after him. When they finally catch up Sodapop tells them he feels sick of being pulled apart by their fights. Ponyboy sympathizes with Sodapop as he says in the text: “Darry and I did play tug of war with him, with never a thought to how much it was hurting him.” Ponyboy suddenly understands what his fighting with Darry has done to Sodapop, and later in their conversation Ponyboy realizes why he never got along with Darry: “I saw that I had expected Darry to do all the understanding without even trying to

Overall, Soda is caring in the story. Ponyboy gives the reader a reason to believe that Sodapop cares about him when he says “I hated to worry Sodapop” (pg. 16). This is explaining how Sodapop worries about Ponyboy, which shows how much Soda cares. Another instance of Sodapop’s helpfulness is being seen when he nurtured Johnny. “Soda held him and pushed his hair back out of his eyes. “It’s okay, Johnnycake, they’re gone now. It's okay.”” (pg. 33). Sodapop could have walked away from Johnny. Instead, he held him and reassured him.

The Outsiders is a story regarding the privation and accomplishments experienced by the Greasers and the Socs, two rival gangs living in the inner city in the early 1960’s. The novel The Outsiders is about two groups of teenagers of bitter rivalry which was due to socio-economic differences.The Outsiders takes us through a journey of violence, struggle and death. It examines the life of a recently orphaned young man born into poverty confronted with the prejudices that he could not change. The novel tells the story of Ponyboy Curtis and his conflicts between the lower and the upper class youths and struggles and with the right and wrong in a society in which he considers himself an outsider. The society is divided in two groups Greasers and Socs, ‘Greasers’ are those who are from East side and belongs to a poor section of the society and ‘Socs’ a short word for society used in the novel, means those who are from West side and belongs to a richer section of a society. The greasers and Socs also have somethings in common like Cherry Valance, a member of Socs, and Ponyboy Curtis, a geaser discuss their love for literature, for popular music, and sunsets. A view of honorable action appears throughout the novel, which works as an important element of the geasers behavioral code.

In this chapter, Ponyboy still in the hospital spending all his time reading and drawing pictures. Oneday he came across a picture of Bob in Soda’s old yearbooks. Then he keeps looking at it and thinking about him and how he had been killed.

Ponyboy does not know where he wants to go with his life. At first he thinks he could never hurt anyone physically. He was once handed a broken bottle to defend himself but did not have too and later he states “I never could have used it anyway”. As the story progresses he losses his close friends. Later after losing them he breaks a bottle and threatens some Socs at a gas station. After they leave he picks up the broken glass so no one gets a flat tire. He does not know whether he should follow Johnny’s advice and stay golden or take Dally’s and toughen up so he wont get hurt anymore. However, he realizes that he needs to follow Johnny’s advice and learn for these mistakes and share with everyone what really happened and let it better him not tear him apart. Ponyboy’s feelings are not strange or rare. Tennagers all over have difficulty figuring out who they are in this world. Everyone has second thoughts on what to do next and how to do it. As kids grow up and realize how they want to live their lives they change. Something they may have done one month ago they would never do

In the book The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton, embarks on a story of a young boy Greaser, his gang, the rivalry with the Socs, and how it all ended. The main theme of The Outsider was social class. Socs have wealth that helps them through life,and their parents have enough money to do anything for them. Greasers do not have an education, and that is true because they do not have enough money and the privilege to get the guidance they need. On the other hand, Socs do not have to worry about not having a bad education because they can afford one. Although greasers have the opportunity to stop and smell the roses, but Socs do not have the cherishable life they wish for. Hinton notifies, through the text, the main reason for the gang’s separation is because of their social class and expectations.

Johnny survived the house fire and he convinced Ponyboy to turn himself in with him. The judge showed leniency during the sentencing, because they had become somewhat of heroes. They only had to serve a probation sentence and do community outreach with troubled children. They became mentors to these kids and had a positive impact on the community. Soda Pop went on to attend the local college, transferred to a well known University, and obtained a bachelor’s degree in Science. He fell in love with a girl he met in college. They eloped and moved to California to start new life. Dally continued to work and his business flourished, because of his strong reputation and upstanding character. He also learned to forgive himself for acting cold towards

Not to mention, protection is also an important and fundamental, and Sodapop and Darrel effectively take care of the young Ponyboy. In any situation they will protect the minor, even if there are gang conflicts outside of their neighborhood, the minor will be protected by his oldest brothers, and as a matter of fact, Ponyboy is in good hands with his brothers. As said in their neighborhood, "they have each others back"

He just wanted to talk.” ( Hinton 118) This quote shows after Ponyboy ran off, when he came back he came back not only himself, but he came back more understanding and more thankful. Ponyboy has been through a lot lately and even though he ran off and all that, but he did come back himself and maybe even he came back a better person. He is more understanding and is seeing how hard Darry and Soda work for them to stick together and have a good home and

Like he’s never hollering at me all the time the way Darry is, or threatening me as if I was six instead of fourteen”, Darry still loves and protects Ponboy in all situations. Darry is honourable because even though Ponyboy runs away from home he still forgave him and was very worried. When Ponyboy and Johnny had ran away because of the murder Johnny had committed, Darry didn’t have the slightest bit of anger and didn’t turn them in which is unlikely for Darry because he usually likes to obey the law and stays out of trouble. The lack of anger from Darry is evident through the letter that Soda pop had written to Pony boy, addressing how Darry was worried sick. “Darry hasn’t got the slightest notation where you are and it’s nearly killing him” page 70.

Soda tried his best to make peace in the house between Ponyboy and Darry. He does a good job paying attention to detail, analyzing what he sees, and taking sides when it’s needed. He like many of us have flaws. To me I think his flaws are that he is very shy in the book and did not play a big role in the novel or movie. I believe if he were more relevant in the novel, that there would have been more peace.

Reason number one why Ponyboy should go to foster care is because Dally and Sodapop are atrocious caregivers. They give under age children drugs, alcohol, and weapons. Dally is abusive to children. He hit Ponyboy for staying with Johnny Cade over night. They both get in fights with their gang of greasers against their rivals ,the Socs.

Ponyboy shouldn't stay with Darry because he isn't very responsible and seems as if he doesn't have enough time for him nor Sodapop. For instance, Darry has to decide if whether Ponyboy should be permitted to also participate in the rumble, “Let me fight, Darry…“Well”-Darry gave in-”I guess you can”(Hinton page 135). With this in mind, Darry imperiled Ponyboy into getting injured. Darry is being careless about his brother and allows him to participate in a perilous rivalry. To make matters even worse, Ponyboy just recovered from the incident where he was trying to save some children in the fire, so he was in an unhealthy situation.

Ponyboy is looking up to his brothers bc his mom or dad isn't there for him to look up too. Darry is the one who is taking over his father's spot. He works all day to help ponyboy and his brothers. He wants his brother to graduate and get a scholarship. ”I love soda more than i have loved anyone, even my mom and dad”(2).