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Character Analysis Of Randy In 'The Outsiders'

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The Outsiders Essay Randy changed his attitude the most he changed it about fighting,socs,and Ponyboy. At first Randy was getting into tons of fights with Bob just for fun. After Bob 's death he didn 't like fighting. Randy was looking forward to the rumble before Bob died and then after he didn 't even go because he was sad and didn 't care about it any more. Because of Bob 's death he no longer likes to fight. Randy changed his attitude to the socs and what they do after the incident with Bob he learned that they were mean and that it was wrong to beat up people. He also had changed his attitude towards the socs by learning that they were just being mean to others that 's why he became friends with Ponyboy and rest of the Greasers (and
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