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    while Dally loves fighting. When Two-bit goes to the hospital, Dally asks for Two-bit’s switchblade. He persuades(threatens) the nurse to let him leave. He shows up at the rumble and says, : Don’t you know a rumble ain’t a rumble unless I’m in it”(144). Even though he’s still hurt, he goes out of his way to go to the rumble just because he

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    doesn’t use his head, he is also nice too when he broke a bottle end off to scare a group of socs off he picks up the glass he broke so no one gets a flat tire, finally Ponyboy is loyal to his gang, right before the rumble Ponyboy was out of shape and sick and shouldn’t participate in the rumble, but his pride tells him he should to help beat the socs.

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    Personal identity is who you think you are, based on your life, experiences, and surroundings. In the novel, The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton, Randy is a character who somewhat struggles with his personal identity. Randy reacts to his identity in the gang in a regretful manner as seen in his thoughts, feelings, and actions. Firstly, Randy thinks that there is no point to fighting, and wants all of it to stop. He is "...sick of it because it doesn't do any good" (117). Nothing is going to be any different

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    remember watching sunsets. Randy was supposed to be too cool to feel anything, and yet there was pain in his eyes.” Cherry watches sunsets when she is supposed to be too cool t feel anything. Randy is expected not to care if anyone got hurt during the rumble or expected not to feel sad about any of the events that has happened, but he does anyway. Both Cherry and Randy do and feel things they aren’t supposed to do or aren’t expected to

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    other greasers are going into a big fight with the Socs. Before the big rumble Ponyboy was feeling sick, but still went to the rumble to fight for the greasers. Darry was trying to convince Ponyboy not to go to the rumble, but Ponyboy was stubborn and pleaded with Darry. Ponyboy said, “I’ll be okay,” I pleaded. “I’ll get hold of a little one, okay?”(131).This shows that Ponyboy is pleading with Darry to let him go to the rumble, and be by their side even when he is sick. He could have stayed home,

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    In the rumble Ponyboy gets a concussion and has been sleeping for about three days. But in the book some guy was really beating Ponyboy bad, so Soda jumped on the guy’s back and got him good Ponyboy then returned the favor by jumping on the guy that was beating Soda. In the book there is more action and description about everything, like in the rumble people are fighting like crazy, and in the book it would describe it like how

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    The Outsider Essay By Nate Fernandez An adventure: a series of events that changed one's life. The Outsiders is a book by S.E Hinton and the main character is Ponyboy. Pony is a greaser the greasers and teenage hoods. The greasers are like the bears the have the biggest rivals and the greasers rivals are the SOCS. The SOCS are the rich kids with the teslas and the rich leather jackets. Pony is 14 years old and throughout the book he is on fire, ran away from Darry (his brother) and Participates

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    How is it possible that two characters that seem like opposites have so much in common? How can a little boy to scared to walk alone have so much in common with a young man whose goal is to break the law? However, in S.E. Hinton’s novel The Outsiders, there are two such characters. Johnny Cade and Dallas Winston are both similar because they both have abusive and neglectful parents as well as the gang bieng their family. Yet, despise these similarities, Johnny and Dally have different views on fighting

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    Before the rumble occurred the Soc's, Greaser's, and hoods all agreed on a small set of rules that everybody was expected to follow. This included that the rumble would only be a fist fight, no blades, pipes, or anything of the arrangement would be allowed to the fight. As well as no blood allowed to be shed between the two sides before

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    in my response the movie, and the book have its differences from each other . The movie, and book give out similar. They both have the rumble in the movie, and the book . The rumble in the movie , and the book we similar , because they had almost the same actions and scenes going on. The movie, and the book are where ponyboy joins the rumble for the first time, saying he can do this by himself, but really he can’t. Then getting into the action with the gang he ends up looking

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