Analysis Of Characters In S. E. Hinton's 'The Outsiders'

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S.E. Hinton created a novel, The Outsiders. It is a story of two different groups that are rivals, and live in Oklahoma. The Greasers and the Soc’s are the group names. The greasers, are very poor, and love each other like family. The Soc’s are rich kids, and the Greasers and the Soc’s fight all the time. One of my favorite characters in the story is Sodapop Curtis. Sodapop has a lot of good features about him, and the story would be a lot different without him. First, in the story, The Outsiders, we are going to talk about Sodapop Curtis’ strengths. Sodapop had many different strengths in the story. One strength of Sodapop is that he is very caring. He cared so much for Ponyboy, like when Ponyboy ran away, and Sodapop wrote him a letter,

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