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    the gang comes and makes the Socs leave Pony alone. The gang includes Darry, Soda, Johnny, Dally, Two-Bit, and some other characters (who aren’t that important). Darry is though and hardened by life. He works two jobs to take care of his younger brothers. He is hard on Pony because he wants him to do well in school and in life. Soda is also Pony’s older brother and is “The Golden Child”. He dropped out of school to work so that him and Darry could put Pony through school. He also has a…

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    Nothing Gold Can Stay

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    Pony recited the poem, “Nothing Gold Can Stay,” by Robert Frost when he watched the sunrise out in the country where he was hiding from police. He remembered the poem but didn't understand what it meant. At the end of The Outsiders, Johnny was the character who figured out how the poem related to him and his friends. This poem seems to be only about nature but when one reads it carefully, he or she can see that it is really about keeping your gold until the very end. Pony’s story is symbolized…

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    First of all, he agreed to walk to the park with Ponyboy. Pony said, “Let's walk to the park and back, then maybe I’ll be cooled off enough to go home.”(Hinton 52) Ponyboy needed to cool off before he went back home, Johnny agreed. If he just decided to take Pony home and sort things out with Darry, they wouldn’t be in this mess. When they got to the park, the Soc were coming up to them. The Soc were drunk and were talking to Johnny and Pony, “Johnny’s hand went to his back pocket and I…

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    park one night after Johnny and Pony run away. As the socs are dunking Pony’s head underwater and threatening to take Pony’s life, Johnny stabs Bob, the leader of the socs, in the back which causes him to eventually die. Due to this, Johnny and Pony have to run even further away than they had planned to. If Ponyboy had to take three important objects to remember his journey, he would take Dally’s jacket, coca-cola, and a copy of Gone with the Wind. Firstly, Pony would take Dally’s jacket with…

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    that way This book is told from the view point of a fourteen year old greaser named Ponyboy Curtis. Ponyboy lives with his two brothers, Darry and Soda. Darry is the oldest of the three and he has to work and take care of Soda and Pony because their parents died. Pony was a great student and made really good grades, and he mostly tried to stay out of trouble. Even though they live on their own, they have a group of friends that are practically family to them. Dallas Winston was the rough one…

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    happened, ten years since Johnny and Dally died. The past ten years have been rough for Soda and Pony, but we managed to stay together through all of the things that happened. We managed to build a house to shelter Pony, Soda, and the gang. We were able to send Pony to college and he’s coming back today for the first time in three years. I called everyone so that I could talk to them about Pony coming back. “So, Pony’s coming home today, and I know that everyone’s excited,…

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    Bob was a Soc, or a member of an upper-class group of people. In other words, he was of a higher class than Pony and his friends. Bob, from what Ponyboy experiences, enjoys getting drunk and hurting the greaser gang, the class in which Pony belongs to. From all of the greasers’ perspectives, Bob is a spoiled bully who hurt them for fun. All they had ever seen Bob do was look down on them and act as if he was more superior…

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    best friend,family,and ,also pony tails . I am thankful for my best friend for many reasons such as ,she always makes me laugh so hard I pee my pants .Another reason is that she always stands by me threw extremely hard ,and tough times .She loves me the way I am ,and never wants to change me .My best friend addie is the best person in the world ,I can tell anything to ,and do everything with .Addie stamper is probably the one person I can trust. I am also thankful for pony tails ,I have many…

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    Sodapop In The Outsiders

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    Throughout the story he makes sure Ponyboy is okay and happy. When the big rumble happened, Pony got kicked in the head by a Soc and Sodapop happened to see it. Later on, it proved that Sodapop beat up the Soc that kicked Pony, because Darry says to Pony, “You got a concussion from getting kicked in the head. Soda saw it. He landed all over that Soc.” Sodapop is also protective of Darry, but more protective towards Pony since he’s younger and not as tough as Darry. Throughout the story, Sodapop…

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    safety of their homes to take refuge in an abandoned church, hoping to escape a potential prison sentence, or, in Pony’s case, separation from his brothers. Ponyboy’s gang relations and criminal activities threaten to cut the tether which connects Pony to his only remaining family, Soda and Darry. Although some may argue that Ponyboy would be in better hands within the system of shelters such as orphanages…

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