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Buggin Out Character Analysis

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He arrives to work and see's Pino, his coworker, and son of Sal, give him a dirty look and said, " you are late". Pino is a racist person who does not like black people and does not get along with Mookie. In contrast, Vito is a nice and respectful individual who is friends with Mookie. It is with these four individuals that Sal's pizzeria had become so well known in New York. Sal is a person who likes to help everyone and is a well-rounded individual. His kindness shows when he gives money to the block drunk, the mayor, for whenever he would help out in the pizzeria. Mookie takes advantage of Sal's kindness in a daily routine, taking excessive amounts of time to do other things. Later in the day, Buggin Out, a friend of Mookie, comes in to
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If Johnny really was beaten up by the greasers, he wouldn't stay with them.   The people that beat him up left in a mustang, and the greasers didn't have the money for that type of thing.  Pony was walking to the gas station for lunch one day, and he heard that the socs got in a food fight and tried to blame it on the greasers.  Had Pony been there, the socs might have gotten away.(cpt 12)

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Pino Frangione is representation of racism and what is wrong with America regarding the treatment of blacks. He is son of Sal and Vito’s Brother and a racist Italian American. He does not look happy about his brother’s friendship with Mookie who is black and being the only Italian American in the neighborhood. Pino’s favorite basketball player is Magic Johnson, his favorite actor is Eddie Murphy and he is fan of Bruce according to Pino

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He could take anything. It was Johnny I was worried about.” He knows how frightened and anxious Johnny is after being jumped and how he is not as tough as the rest of the Greasers. Especially without a loving family at home, Johnny only has the gang and is not able to take as much. Throughout the whole novel, Ponyboy expresses how much he cares for others both with Johnny, and

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Along the way his friends in the Greaser community help Ponyboy through tough times he experiences. In the greaser community the Greasers provide food and shelter for each other because most of them don’t have a lot of money to support themselves. The rival gang The Socs have lots of money and have nice homes and cars. The Socs usually bully the Greasers.

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