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Sodapop Patrick Curtis: Seventeen-year-old Sodapop backs up all of the personality he has with lots of heart. Like his brother older brother, Darry, he's movie-star handsome, and seeing to the fact that he's a Curtis, he's smart, which is was one thing that he never thought he was, forcing him to drop out of school. Along with his confusion of his smarts, he’s athletic, and hard working, although he never took sports as seriously as his youngest brother, Ponyboy and his oldest brother, Darry. Sodapop has a strong bond with his little and big brother, he never liked to fight with his siblings unlike the amount of fighting that they do, making everyones bond with Sodapop practically unbreakable. Pony’s feelings for Soda are entirely positive, no bad energy comes to mind when thinking of Sodapop. He idolizes and loves his older brother and sees how smart he truly is, even if he himself doesn’t realize it. Soda is always cheery and he takes his role as the middle brother seriously, and is constantly trying to make sure that Pony and Darry don’t fight, so things can go back to the way th...
Poney does not want to be in a boys home, due to his parents death all three boys should be in a boys home. He mentions both in the book and the movie he has to be careful with getting into huge trouble because if the cops found him they would put him in a boys home since he has no parent. Cherry is very kind hearted in both the movies she tells Ponyboy about how you can’t assume if one person from this group is like that, then that must mean everyone else there is the same. She finds a way to figure someone out, if they are a certain way it's because of their past because they've gone through tough stuff she says “Things are rough all over”(S.E. Hinton). In both Cherry spills soda on Dally for trying to hit on her and tells him “get lost hood” (S.E. Hinton), but then tells Pony that if she sees Dally she's afraid she will fall for him, because she sees the good in him. Poney boy also talks to Johnny about the poem Nothing Gold Can Stay in both while watching the sunset about losing your innocence and views in life. When Johnny passes away he tells Ponyboy Stay
Characters are always changing, in speech, thoughts, actions, and looks, overall changing themselves in a variety of ways. In the story, Code Talker, by Joseph Bruchac, the protagonist, Kii Yazhi(Ned Begay) changes mentally and physically through the story in many different ways from the beginning to the end. His mindset and opinions on many important things in his life change majorly as he develops himself as a person. Ned’s mentality on his heritage develops in a positive manner through the different major events that occur in his life as he goes through his own unique adventure.
The main character of this book is Ponyboy. Ponyboy was a Greaser he was different from all the others he liked books and movies. Nobody in the Greasers digged books and movies the way Ponyboy did. Ponyboy was fourteen years old and he had two brothers that he lived with his older brother Darrel who they call Darry and his second older brother Sodapop who was sixteen going on seventeen. Ponyboy only live with his brothers because they mother and father was killed in a car accident. Ponyboy wanted to be like a movie star Paul Newman he wished he looked like him. Ponyboy always thought his brother Darry never cared about him or anything else. Ponyboy had a friend Jonny. Johnny was a Greaser too but he was the softest one but after he got jumped that changed he always carried a switchblade on him.
Ponyboy has good grades and he likes to be on the track team and that keeps him in good health. In the end Ponyboy realizes that Darry cared about him as much as Sodapop. Darry is rough on Ponyboy because he want’s the best for him. Clearly Ponyboy does good in school and likes to do track and this keeps him in shape. All in all Ponyboy should stay with Darry because Darry tries too hard to keep Ponyboy in school so that he would have a better life. Darry has high expectations for Ponyboy and these expectations keep Ponyboy with good grades. Ponyboy also does track and this keeps him healthy and in shape. Ponyboy might be a star track runner. This is why Ponyboy should stay with
¨I lay on my bed, confused and angry. That stuff my dad had said about an ankle injury - it was a lie¨. - pg. 28, Gym candy By. Carl Deuker.
Showing that Ponyboy was very inexperienced and thought Mickey Mouse Sodas horse was just like Soda and they were brothers.Thirdly, we see how some actions Ponyboy’s gang does help show the need for childhood innocence like when pony says,” Darrel, who we call Darry, works too long and hard to be interested in a story or drawing a picture,” (Hinton 3). Darry is only 20 and he has a job working on roofs he works so hard so he can care for his brothers Soda and Ponyboy he has no time to be a kid himself he is working like a man when he is only a child.While some believe the main theme is brotherly love I argue its preserving childhood innocence. While this is a good point, because Ponyboy’s group definitely sticks up for one another in a brotherly fashion, it lays a strong foundation for preserving childhood innocence. Jonny had never been a coward he was a good man in a rumble, (Hinton 34) this shows how has Johnny loses his innocence, he becomes fearful of the Soc’s and begins to carry a switchblade to keep his gang safe, you might think this shows brotherly love, but it also shows preserving childhood innocence because when Johnny got used to being targeted by the Soc’s he lost his innocence, that’s why he would carry stuff like switch blades to keep him and others safe from the Soc’s. While the Greasers grew up they lost more and more of their innocence to rumbles and hatred of the Soc’s.
The book Some Assembly Required by Arin Andrews shows that perseverance and an unwillingness to let other people decide things for you results in the ability to be who you are inside. Arin, for example, was born as a girl named Emerald. For many years, he was very depressed, until he figured out that he was transgender. Despite others trying to tell him that it was unnatural and a sin, he kept going with what he knew to be true and eventually was able to live life how he wanted to. Even when he was very young, there was always this sense of not belonging for him. In a flashback, Arin tells about a time that he was on his grandparents farm, feeding a cow out of a gloved hand, when the cow sucked his glove off. For reference, this was a “girly
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“Since Mom and Dad were killed in an auto wreck, the three of us get to stay together only as long as we behave (2).” This explains why Ponyboy, Dally and Sodapop did not have parents. In the novel, this really effected their life and character. "…It was Darry. He hit me. I don't know what happened, but I couldn't take him hollering at me and hitting me too... He didn't use to be like that... we used to get along okay... before Mom and Dad died. Now he just can't stand me (2)." This shows that not having their parents anymore effected Darry’s character and how he treated Ponyboy, which in return effected how Ponyboy felt about himself in comparison to how he was treated. This illustrates that Ponyboy believes that Darry picks on him all the time. This shows that Darry was like a caring parent in a tough way,
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Darry is the oldest Curtis boy. He is smart, hardworking, and very muscular. He is Ponyboy and Soda’s big brother. For his symbols I chose a tight black muscle shirt, a high school diploma, egg sandwich, chocolate cake, bundle of twigs, and a letterman jacket. The tight black muscle shirt represents he is muscular. The high school diploma means he is smart. He loves egg sandwiches and chocolate cake. The bundle of twigs represents the bundle of roofing and Darry works really hard. The letterman jacket means he loves to play football and had a scholarship for college. Darry had two main conflicts him hitting Ponyboy and him not going to college. Ponyboy came home late and Darry was mad so he slapped Ponyboy. Darry was going to
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