He drops out of high school to work at a gas station with his friend Steve Randal to support his brothers. Sodapop is Ponyboy Curtis’s older brother and Darrel Curtis’s younger brother, making him the middle child in a family that is tragically without their parents. Who are Sodapop’s parents? Read more…
Sandy. Tulsa’s own Lynne Hatheway Anthony was cast as Sodapop’s girlfriend, Sandy. Who gets pregnant in The Outsiders? When Pony learns that Sandy’s pregnant—not with Soda’s kid—and that Sandy’s parents refused to let her marry Soda, he realizes Soda has problems too. Since we only end up hearing this information Read more…
That Cherry Valance is acting as a spy for the greasers shocks greasers and Johnny, but then they learn that Bob, the dead Soc, had been her boyfriend. Dally informs them that Cherry has said that she is willing to testify that the Socs were drunk that night and that Read more…
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 Read more…
The Outsiders dynamic characters Ponyboy and Randy are the only two characters that are dynamic. Randy changes from when he jumped Ponyboy and Johnny and is now rational. Why is Ponyboy a dynamic character? He is also one of the only “true pieces of family Ponyboy has got left. He Read more…
socs were drunk. Pony means that the socs were drunk. What does pony mean when he says SOCS were reeling pickled? What does Pony mean when he says the socs were “reeling pickled” on page 54? what Ponyboy meant was, that They were drunk. What major event happens in this Read more…
The Curtis brothers fear that the state agency will split them up, but they should not get split because they look out for each other, push each other, and need each other. What does Ponyboy worry about? Analysis: Chapters 11–12 Ponyboy’s friends worry that he will cope by hardening into Read more…
Chapter 1: How does Ponyboy describe his brothers? he describes his brothers as caring and protective and that he’s not like them at all. How does Ponyboy feel about his brother? What does Ponyboy think about his brother, Darry? Ponyboy doesn’t think Darry loves him. He thinks Darry is too Read more…
Sodapop Patrick Curtis. Sodapop Patrick Curtis is the middle Curtis boy, and one of three deuteragonists of The Outsiders. He’s said to be “movie star handsome,” and has silky, dark gold hair (real tuff) that he combs back. Is Sodapops real name Sodapop? Sodapop Curtis Sodapop Full Name Sodapop Patrick Read more…
round. Throughout the book some characters that are round are Johnny Cade, and Ponyboy. Flat characters are people such as Darry, Two-Bit, and Steve. What type of character is Ponyboy from The Outsiders? He is described as smart, impulsive, and handsome like his brother, Sodapop. Ponyboy Curtis is in a Read more…