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Sodapop: A True Hero

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Hercules said, “A true hero isn’t measured by the size of his strength, but by the strength of his heart.” A hero is someone who wants to help others and always does the right thing. In the book The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton, Sodapop isn’t a hero because he’s extremely strong or courageous, but because he’s caring and selfless. In the beginning of the book, Soda has a conversation with Ponyboy about his relationship with Sandy. “I think I’m gonna marry Sandy. After she gets out of school and I get a better job and everything. I might wait till you get out of school, though. So I can still help Darry with the bills and stuff,” (18) says Soda. He is willing to put everything on hold to help make sure that his brothers have a stable …show more content…

As a greaser, it is hard to do this, with everyone always seeing the worst in them and the socs constantly jumping them. It’s hard to see the world as anything but bad in the situation that the greasers are in, but Sodapop always sees the good. He knows there is something positive in everything and everyone. When Soda found out that Sandy’s baby was not his he was still willing to marry her because he believed that she was still a good person after the bad thing she had done. After a long day, Soda runs out of the house, and Darry tells Ponyboy about the letter from Sandy. Darry explains, “ ‘When Sandy went to Florida… It wasn’t Soda Ponyboy. He told me he loved her, but I guess she didn’t love him like he thought she did because it wasn’t him.’... ‘He wanted to marry her anyway, but she just left’ ” (174). Most people would have been angry and wished the worst upon her, but not Soda. He thought that no matter what bad she could do it would be alright and that she would still love him. In most cases this is a great quality, but in this instance, Soda got his heart broken because he was just being a great guy. When Sodapop decides to try to see the best in Sandy, it shows how heroes are people who want to see the best version of

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On page 167 “the hearing wasn’t like I thought it would be. ”Additionally Soda dropped the letter he wrote to Sandy on the floor.

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but I couldn’t. I burst out bitterly: “He’s not like Sodapop at all and he sure ain’t like me… but he can’t stand me. I bet he wishes he could stick me in a home somewhere, and he’d do it, too, if Soda’d let him.” However, towards the end of the book, Pony finally understands the multitude of love that Darry holds for him. An example of this is, “Darry did care about me, maybe as much as he cared about

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A hero can be anyone such as your friend, your next door neighbor, or even your sibling. A hero is a person who will risk their life or defend others from harm’s way. In “The Outsiders” by S.E Hinton, Ponyboy is a hero. Johnny is a hero because kills someone to save an innocent person. Cherry teaches Ponyboy lessons about her experiences which also makes her a hero.

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(Hinton, page 8). This proves Soda is there for his family, by confuting his little brother Ponyboy when he's scared and upset. Secondly, ¨…,and I had Sodapop to talk things over with¨ (Hinton, page 37). This is showing how his family already knows Soda is there for them no matter what, by Ponyboy saying he can talk things over with him. And lastly, ¨ Soda always takes up for me.¨ (Hinton, page 12).

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Therefore, Ponyboy was going to thrive in the future to prove that he is worthy enough to be treated as a Soc. In a way to attain success, Darry set high standards for Ponyboy, such as outstanding grades, for Ponyboy. These standards were set for Ponyboy because Darry did not have the chance to attend college. Furthermore, Sodapop had to drop out out of high school to help Darry support the family. Darry wants Ponyboy’s fate to be successful, unlike his and Sodapop’s.

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Sodapop said "I mean I can't take sides. It'd be a lot easier if I could be I see both sides".(pg 150). Sodapop said this because all they do have left is each other because their parents died and they are on their own now. Finally, Ponyboy learns about keeping and appreciating his family especially when johnny died. This taught him that family isn't forever, but you can make it last a long time.

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Soda now wants his brothers to stop the fighting, so they can all live happy with each other, and so he doesn’t hear them fighting everyday. What happened to Soda during the time of this book was awful with Ponyboy running away, and Sandy breaking up with him Soda has been through the ringer. Now he can rise past this and change in a positive way, telling his brothers that things have to change and they have to take his feelings into consideration. Telling them that they have to see him and see that he is hurting, and recodnize that. Now that Soda can rise past his brothers and their fighting, he can still be the glue in the relationship

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He is willing to do anything for Ponyboy and Sodapop, who is the middle child of the three. Darry is always on Ponyboy for being on time to come back home. Although Darry yells at Ponyboy for not coming back on time sometimes,“Darry wheeled around and slapped me so hard that it knocked me against the door”(page). When Ponyboy comes out of the hospital because elf getting injured, he see Soda and Darry waiting for him, “Then I realized, horrified, that Darry was crying” (page). Darry says that he was so scared that something bad had happened to Ponyboy that he started crying, which he never does.

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