The Outsiders Quotes

This event also set off a chain of events in the novel because of his action. Darry’s choices have made his kid brother feel even more intimidated by him. In addition to be intimidating, Darrel Curtis has also proven to be rigorous, or stern. “If I brought home B’s, he wanted A’s.

When the three were younger, both of their parents died in a car accident and Darry was left to look after them. This, for a young boy with aspirations would have been extremely hard - having to become a parent at such a young age . Hard as that must certainly been for Darry, I think harder still was managing his emotions. Darry loves his brothers dearly, but does not express his love in an obvious way. He is scarred by his parent’s deaths and doesn’t want anything like that to happen again to his brothersAWK. I think we really see how hard things are for Darry when he is reunited with Ponyboy in a hospital after Ponyboy goes missing. The previous encounter the two had had was when Ponyboy arrived home extremely early in the morning, and Darry slapped him (which we later learn was because he was scared something had happened). When the two are reunited, Darry is racked with sobs as he embraces Ponyboy and says ‘Oh Pony, I thought we’d lost you...like we did mom and dad.’ (HINTON, p121). This shows that Darry had kept his feelings so hidden (much like Randy), he was so driven by his fear, and scarredREPETITION by the events that took the lives of his parents – but in the end the hardships of his life came crashing down on him.NOT

Sometimes it’s easier for a reader to have empathy for others when they know what other people are feeling, thinking, and what’s been going on in their lives. It makes “putting yourself in their shoes” simpler. First Person POV is an example of when this can occur. The reader is seeing events how the main character is seeing it. When Cherry asks Ponyboy what Darry is like while walking home from the movies one night, Ponyboy lets out all of his feelings for his older brother. My face got hot as I bit my lip. “He’s….” I started to say he was a good ol’ guy, but I couldn’t. I burst out bitterly: “He’s not like Sodapop and he sure ain’t like me. He’s as hard as rock and about as human. He thinks I’m a pain in the neck. He likes Soda- everybody likes Soda- but he can’t stand me. I bet he wishes he could stick me in a home somewhere, and he’d do it, too, if Soda’d let him.” This, and Ponyboy’s view of Darry’s actions, sway the reader to believe what he is saying, that Darry cannot stand Ponyboy.

In the book, The Outsiders, Ponyboy Curtis is part of the Greaser’s, a gang of boys who are in the lower class in 1965. Their arch rival, the Socs, are the more privileged, upper class boys from across town. Throughout the book, the two gang have many conflicts. Darry, Ponyboy’s oldest brother acts as a parent figure for him since both of his parents were killed in a car crash. Other member of the Greasers are Dally, Two-Bit, Steve, Sodapop, and Johnny. After getting in a fight with his brother, Ponyboy flees to the park where he runs into a group of Socs. The Socs attack Ponyboy and hold his head under the water in the fountain, trying to kill him. Ponyboy blacks out, and later wakes up to see on the Soc boys dead body next to him. Johnny then tells Ponyboy that he killed the boys because they were trying to kill Ponyboy. The boys are afraid, and desperately try to find Dally Winston, who gives them a gun and sends them to the abandoned church to hide. The two boys stay at the church for a while until they decide to go back into town. As they are leaving

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.

Why could Darry easily be a soc? Ponyboy believes Darry could easily be a soc because in the text in says, “Darry was too smart to be a greaser.” (134) Furthermore, Darry was intelligent, athletic, and attractive, and he could’ve gotten a scholarship easily if he was a soc. Ponyboy, Soda, and the greasers are the only reason Darry is not a soc. Darry had to take care of the Ponyboy and Soda after their parents died in the car accident. This changed Darry because he had to quit school and get a job to get money to raise Ponyboy and Soda. This is why Ponyboy thinks Darry could easily be a soc.

Darrel Curtis Ponyboy’s oldest brother. Darrel, known as “Darry,” both in the book and in the movie. He is a twenty-year-old greaser who is raising Ponyboy because their parents have died in a car crash. Strong, athletic, and intelligent, Darry has quit school in the book and in the movie. He works two jobs to hold the family together. One of the leader of the greasers, he becomes an parent role model for Ponyboy. He also makes good chocolate cake, which he and his brothers eat every day for breakfast in the book but the movie really does not mention it. The other greasers call him “Superman.”

Life is too short to worry about the stupid things. Have fun. Fall in love. Regret nothing, and don't let people bring you down. (all-greatquotes.com). In The Outsiders, a novel by S. E. Hinton, Sodapop Curtis is the happy-go-lucky member of the gang. Hinton uses characterization to show how great of a brother Sodapop is. In the book, Sodapop is caring, funny and, gentle.

There are many members of the Greasers. There is “Dally” or Dallas Winston, the hot-headed, sharp looking, roughest member of the Greasers, who lived in New York City for three years. Sodapop Curtis, Ponyboy’s second oldest brother (sixteen years old), dropped out of high school, and now works in a gas station. Darrel or “Darry” Curtis is

Darry, the oldest brother have had many conflicts with Soda and Pony, which made him change during this novel. First, one event that made Darry change was when he slapped his little brother, Pony when he came home late. Pony ran away for a few days because he thought that Darry didn’t want him as a brother anymore. Darry was so sorry, sad, and mad at himself for slapping Pony.

Have you ever wondered how the 1960’s was like? Would you have been fearful, jovial, or melancholy? In the book, The Outsiders, by S. E. Hinton the main character Ponyboy Curtis lives with his two brothers, Sodapop and Darry, and is involved in a gang called the “greasers.” Ponyboy realizes what it is to be a kind person instead of being violent, he is always on top of his studies and is very observant of others.

Darry can be described as responsible for many reasons. Darry was a hard worker; he had to support himself and two other teenage boys. A quote from the novel, Ponyboy states, “Darry didn’t deserve to work like an old man when he was only twenty” (Hinton 16). He worked hard all day just to put food on the table and a roof over their heads. Darry wants Ponyboy to exceed excellence in life. He often yells at him because he cares and wants to make sure he has the best future he could possibly get. Ponyboy says, “I never could please him. He would have hollered at me for carrying a blade if I had carried one. If I brought home B’s he was A’s. If I had A’s, he wanted to make sure they stayed A’s. If I was playing football, I should be in studying, and if I was reading, I should be out playing football” (Hinton

Darrel “Darry” Curtis was a 20 year old boy who took responsibility and parented his brothers while keeping two jobs. In the book The Outsiders by S.E Hinton, Darry was a grown up boy, smart and brawn, who was the leader of a gang called the Greasers and was a guardian for his brothers. Darry took this role as a guardian or father of his brothers Sodapop and Ponyboy Curtis after the death of their parents. The Greasers were in a heated rivalry with another gang called the Socs. Darry took responsibility for his family and gang members while working two jobs. Through the ups and downs Darry protected his brothers. Darry, as a 20 year old boy, had enough responsibility to parent his

Ponyboy, Johnny, Sodapop, Darry are all a part of the unruly gang, the Greasers. S.E Hinton is writing these characters as rebellious young men, with a harsh background, who takes their anger and hardship out on gang fighting. These roles play an important part in this book because it shows that even though they nothing physically, they have a heart stronger than gold for each other and others mentally. Hinton use these characters to show prejudice leads to wrong conclusions, violence and oppression because these “poor” young men are getting beat up by the rich Socs who have never felt the feeling of being in poverty. “ You take up for your buddies, no matter what they do. When you’re in a gang, you stick up for the members. If you don’t stick up for them, stick together, make

Darry is the oldest of the Curtis brothers. He is a strong, smart and loves his brothers. The symbol I did for Darry is a football because strong mighty people play football and Darry loved to play football. Some of the conflict for Darry is when he hits Pony, and Pony runs away. Another conflict is when his parents die and he has to start working, not go to college, and take care of his brothers. His setting is the house because he is there a lot or at work because he is always working