Contrasting Characters In The Outsiders, By S. E. Hinton

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In the novel The Outsiders,by S.E. Hinton there are a lot of contrasting characters. For instance there is a character named Ponyboy Curtis. There is also another character named Darrell Curtis, whom they call Darry, there is another character named Soda Curtis. The three boys Soda,Ponyboy,and Darry are brothers. Darry is the oldest of the three boys. I am going to be doing a character analysis on Ponyboy. Pontboy is a teenager who is identified as a “greaser”. During the time this book was written there were 2 social classes. Those classes were called the “Socs”,and the “Greasers”. The Socs were a lot more wealthy than the greasers. If you were a Greaser you would never want to walk alone, because you could get jumped at any time. That