Journal #3

This is my last journal and I am to write a paragraph about an important character in the book and answer questions 1,2, and 3. For my paragraph I chose to write about Sodapop Curtis.

Paragraph:

Sodapop is a seventeen year handsome greaser with nice hair and is more of a “happy go lucky” kind of guy. Sodapop Curtis is a high school dropout who now works at a local gas station because he was failing school. He also had a girlfriend named Sandy but she moved to Florida from New York because she didn’t love him anyone. Soda is very close to both of his brothers and sticks up for Ponyboy when Darry is being too hard on him about his school work or just in general. He would do anything for his brothers but hates to pick sides when it comes to arguments between Ponyboy and Darry. When Ponyboy runs away because Darry hits him Soda writes to Ponyboy about how he should come home and how much Darry is sorry. Soda is very kind and very caring towards both of his brother’s feelings.

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Sodapop Curtis
Questions and Answers:

1. Why is he important in the novel?
Sodapop is important in the book, The Outsiders, because he is the brother of Darry and Ponyboy. Sodapop is the middleman in the house because he is the middle child and Darry and Ponyboy also want him to take their sides in arguments.

2. Would you like to be the main character? Why or why not?
I wouldn’t want to be the main character because Ponyboy does not have any parents and lives with his two brothers, two of his good friends died recently, and he tends to get into “rumbles” quite a bit with a gang called the “socs.”

3. Would you like the main character for a friend? Give your
reasons.
I wouldn’t want to be close friends with Ponyboy because he is rough and smokes a lot. I would be just a distance friend of his because he is a nice guy.

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Sodapop Curtis