Sodapop Family In The Outsiders

The Outsiders illustrates the theme through the relationship of Ponyboy and Darry throughout the course of the book. In the beginning of the book, Darry slaps Ponyboy because he came home very late. This causes Ponyboy to run away from home with Johnny. Ponyboy tells Johnny, “‘He didn’t use to be like that...we used to get along okay...before Mom and Dad died. Now he just can’t stand me,’” (Hinton 51). This quote shows that Ponyboy is isolated from his brother. It shows how Ponyboy and Darry are drifting further apart from each other due to the death of their parents. Later on in the book when Ponyboy, Johnny, and Dally are in the hospital, Sodapop and Darry come to see how they are all doing. When Darry and Sodapop see Ponyboy, they have a

The Outsiders, made in 1983, is based on the original book made in 1967, The Outsiders. The movie copied the same plot of the book heavily, as it still portrays the same main character, Ponyboy Curtis (played by Thomas C. Howell), a fourteen year old boy living with his two brothers. This one and a half hour film shows Ponyboy’s life as a greaser, as he experiences the positive and negative sides of his family life style, and questions the benefits of the greaser’s biggest enemy; the Socials.

Ponyboy describes the family as “Anyone who loves you, cares about you.” A family can influence in many different ways that can change people. Family influences a relationship between a family member. "We were too different not to,’’ Ponyboy describe. He did not recognize how alike, he and Darry are.

(E) Sodapop is not someone in his family or the gang that people would think when he honestly explains,”I’m sick of this! Were all we got left now. If we don’t got each other we ain't got nothing. And when you ain't got nothin you end up like dally and I don’t mean dead either. I mean how he was before..so stop the fighting,please.”

To start, Ponyboy the protagonist in The Outsiders, Jonas the main character in The Giver, and Brian the lonely boy in Hatchet, all have to overcome hardships in their life. When ponyboy, [the main character in the book] was little, his parents' passed away in a car crash.He and his brothers, Dally and Sodapop, had to learn to take care of themselves after this devastation occurred. Ponyboy explains how his parent's death affected him and his brothers:“Since Mom and Dad were killed in an auto wreck, the three of us get to stay together only as long as we behave. So Soda and I stay out of trouble as much as we can, and we’re careful not to get caught when we can’t” (Hinton 3). Because of his parents’ death, Ponyboy and Soda try not to be bad

In the book The Outsiders the message being portrayed is family is not always blood. After Darry got mad at Ponyboy for walking home from the movies alone, Two-Bit told him “Next time get one of us to go with you Ponyboy, any of us will.” This shows that the gang will do anything for eachother. They have each others backs and even though they don’t always show it, they love each other. Knowing that after Johnny and Ponyboys accident in the park, Dally went out of his way to do anything he could showed he cares a lot also.

Have you ever thought about how life would be like without your family and friends? Throughout this novel, The Outsiders, By S.E. Hinton, three brother share many common conflicts between each other. Every brother and sister have been in fights or arguments, but after everything, you still love them. Darry, Soda, and Pony have changed dramatically throughout the novel.

Family is family but sometimes your close friends are closer than the people you live with. So friends can be just as good as family. In the book outsiders there is a lot of evidence that is provided to prove that this is true. For instance, Ponyboy (the little brother in the curtis family, he has two brothers Darry the oldest and Sodapop the middle child) is a respectful family member with all the kids in the gang and he is like the family baby/little brother to the gang. There is a lot of good evidence and I have pulled out some of it to prove my point. Here is some of the evidence that I’m using. My evidence is johnny and dally and pony all are like brothers and can’t be separated. The live as if they had grown up together and experienced life together.

After the tragic death of Ponyboy, Sodapop, and Darrel Curtis “Darry” parents, Darry takes their role and starts being responsible for them. In the book The Outsiders by S.E Hinton, Darry plays the role of the older brother of Sodapop and Ponyboy. In this book Darry can be described as very hardworking, loyal, and muscular/strong.

The theme of family is interesting in “The Outsiders” because it shows us that family cares about each other can a family will do anything too keep it together even if that means having massive consequences and that family is forever and will always support you no matter what the circumstances are.

Life is too short to worry about the stupid things. Have fun. Fall in love. Regret nothing, and don't let people bring you down. (all-greatquotes.com). In The Outsiders, a novel by S. E. Hinton, Sodapop Curtis is the happy-go-lucky member of the gang. Hinton uses characterization to show how great of a brother Sodapop is. In the book, Sodapop is caring, funny and, gentle.

What is family in your opinion? Family can be a source of support, compassion, optimism, love and happiness, but family can also be a cause of depression, betrayal, hurt and pain. Family is not always determined based on having the same DNA but it is the relationships that people can make or have with one another. Family can consist of several different people like, friends, co-workers, classmates, a community, etc... Some family members can be your worst enemies because they have the most information of secrets to bring a relative down. Being able to trust a person, depend on them, and be carefree is a person that can be valued as being a part of a family. In the movie Little Miss Sunshine, their dysfunctional family is loving, supportive, optimistic and motivating. The movie is filled with humor about a modern middle-class family that is about to encounter a financial catastrophe but in the midst of their struggles they still find the beauty in life and the meaning in life. The beginning of the movie Richard, the father is giving a motivational speech about winning, he states “There are two types of people in this world, winners and losers”.(Little Miss Sunshine) Richard is a protagonist motivational speaker that is obsessed with winning. He is so consumed with achieving that he ridicules his family for not being perfect throughout the film. Richard trying to build up the ideal life or what he thinks is the ‘American Dream’ around himself. He chooses to ignore aspects of the life around him that he sees as unacceptable or out of sync with his ideal lifestyle, trying instead to fulfil his role as the authorative head of the family and provider. Sheryl is the mother who is optimist, she is always giving words of encouragement even when Richard is trying to bring down his family and she is all about being truly honest. Frank is the brother of Sheryl whom at the beginning attempts to commit suicide due to a broken heart and losing his standing as Americas pre-eminent Proust Scholar. Dwayne is the son of Richard and Sheryl and is committed to joining the air force. He also is very committed that he takes a vow of silence until he gets into the air force, but then he finds out he is color blind and breaks his

The main theme of 'The Outsiders' is that friends are your chosen family. In other words, the people in your inner circle along with your family, are the friends you choose to have there. This is present with many characters in the book, in fact, the only three 'Greasers' that did not seem to have their friends closer than their family were Ponyboy, Sodapop, and Darry. However, these three boys had many people in their lives who loved their friends more than their family, such as Johnny, who's dad beat him, and mom neglected him, and Dally who had no relation with his parents, then there is Darry, who loves his friends like family, and he is one of the only ones that knows what true family love feels like.

Dally Winston shows that some people act tough, so life won’t hurt. “You get tough like me and you don’t get hurt. You look out for yourself and nothing can touch you.”(pg.147) Dally tells Pony this while they are driving to go see Johnny before he dies. Saying this is like saying if you don’t have emotions, then nothing will hurt you. Dally only cared about Johnny and, when Johnny dies, he wants to die too. Ever since Johnny got jumped he was nervous and scared. Then when his friend’s life depended on it, he killed a Soc and when the church was burning he risked his own life to save the children. By having this happen the author shows that Johnny comes off like a shy, scared person, but he can be a hero and will risk his life for others. Sodapop Curtis is the middle brother, he understands everyone and is more optimistic feeling than the rest of the greasers. “Soda never touches a drop—he doesn‘t have to. He gets drunk on just plain living. And he understands everybody.”(pg. 8) He is less affected by tension than his brothers, but sometimes gets caught up in their drama. “It's like a middleman in a tug o' war and I'm being split in half… We're all we've got left. We ought to be able to stick together against anything. If we don't have each other, we don't have anything." Soda is like a peacemaker in the house and values his family’s peace.

Is life even possible without parents when you are a teenager? Try raising two younger brothers on top of that. In S.E. Hinton’s book, The Outsiders, Darry Curtis took this duty into his own hands and tackled it as though he was a father. The Outsiders is a book about a rivalry between the two sides of town that leads to the death of three kids, two greasers and Soc. Does the sun set on both sides of town? The main characters in the story, Ponyboy, Sodapop, and Darry Curtis lose their parents in a car crash and have to adjust to life on their own. 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.