Read an in-depth analysis of Cherry Valance. Marcia is a pretty, dark-haired Soc who befriends Two-Bit at the drive-in. Marcia and Two-Bit share a sense of humor and a taste for nonsensical musings. Randy is a handsome Soc who eventually sees the futility of fighting. Along with Cherry, Randy humanizes the Socs by showing that some of them have redeeming qualities.
Randy helps Ponyboy realize that Socs are as susceptible to pain as anyone else. Randy tries to make peace with Ponyboy after Ponyboy saves the children from the fire, and he refuses to fight in the Soc-greaser rumble. Bob is the dark-haired Soc who beats up Johnny before the novel begins. Bob has a set of three heavy rings, which he wears when he fights greasers. The husky blond Soc who steps forward to challenge Darry when the rumble begins. Paul and Darry were friends and football teammates in high school.
The teacher who accompanies Ponyboy to the hospital after Ponyboy saves the children from the fire. Though an adult and a member of mainstream society, Jerry judges the greasers on their merits instead of automatically branding them juvenile delinquents. The leader of another band of greasers and a friend of Dally. Tim and Dally respect each other, despite occasional conflicts.
Ponyboy thinks of Tim as an alley cat, hungry and restless. The fifteen-year-old brother of Tim Shepard. Curly is stubborn and rough. He cannot go to the rumble because he was put in a reformatory for six months after robbing a liquor store. This assignment inspires Ponyboy to write about the greasers and the Socs, and his autobiographical theme turns into the novel The Outsiders.
Ace your assignments with our guide to The Outsiders! SparkTeach Teacher's Handbook. He is upbeat, friendly and very funny, loves to joke and is always loyal to other greasers. Physically, TwoBit is tall and muscular, has gray eyes and rusty sideburns, and always smiles. The Outsiders is not fiction.
Tim is described as a cat, with black curls and dark blue eyes. His nose was broken twice three times after it got blocked towards the end of the novel. IMDb rating: 7. Keith TwoBit Mathews who wrote Matthews in the film's credits is eighteen and a half years old and still in high school. He is the oldest and the brightest of the bunch. He is the second oldest after Darry who is 20 and is notorious for stealing him.
Why are foreigners also a forbidden book? Foreigners of S. Hinton can be banned from areas where parents and guardians feel there is too much adult content and negatively impacting children. For example, several scenes deal with gang violence resulting from the growing tension between Greasers and Socs.
He doesn't have much of a life outside of work, the gym, and his responsibilities at home. Ponyboy's feelings toward Darry are conflicted and complicated: they struggle to understand each other. Since we see the struggle through Pony's eyes, though, we can only guess about Darry's journey based on the details Pony provides.
We think he's so hard on Pony because a he sees Pony's potential and is afraid that if he isn't hard on Pony, then Pony won't reach that potential; and b he has no experience as a parent! Darry's stepped into this role without any preparation, and is probably really afraid to fail. His little brother's safety is all in his hands, and there's danger lurking around every corner. When Pony doesn't take care of himself or act responsibly, Darry feels frustrated and angry.
He has pressure from all sides, and is always on the verge of exploding. According to Pony, Darry wasn't like this before their parents died. We aren't trying to excuse Darry for hitting Pony that one time. Pony says "Darry wheeled around and slapped me so hard it knocked him against the wall" 3.
For Pony, who had never before been "hit" 3. For all he knows, the violence that plagues him on the street has now seeped into his own home.
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