Persuasive Essay On The Outsiders

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In “The Outsiders”, S.E. Hinton created more than twenty characters each having diverse personalities, which causes readers to feel a certain way about them, such as admiration or hatred. For example, Sodapop Curtis would make the perfect bae, because of his charming personality. Additionally, if Darrel Curtis, Soda’s older brother, were a real person, he would most likely become someone's frenemy, due to his actions and words. While Dallas Winston would be the ideal person to be eliminated from the young adult novel. So, the three characters’ different actions, words, and personalities, cause people to conclude that their bae would be Sodapop, Darry would be their frenemy, and lastly, they would desire for the seventeen-year-old Dally to be eliminated.
Furthermore, the sixteen-year old-going-on-seventeen Sodapop Curtis would be the best character from S.E. Hinton’s book, to be your very own bae. You may be wondering why he would be a fantabulous “before anything else”, well he has an abundance of charismatic features, such as his thoughtful yet reckless face, and he is extremely compassionate towards his brothers, the gang, and even the people that he had just met. Soda could be that bae that you have been hunting for, because of
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Hinton made, due to their different personality traits. Kind and affectionate are two aspects that you would look for in a bae and Sodapop Curtis has both of these traits. Darrel Curtis who can be as hard has nails can also be a great person to go to for advice which makes him the frenemy that you’ve always wanted. Last but not least, the unsympathetic and impolite criminal does not contribute to the book positively and should be removed from it. After reading the novel and learning about the people that have parts in the book, readers can infer that Sodapop would have to be their bae, Darrel Curtis would become their frenemy, and that they would want to banish Dallas

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