While the guys are walking with the girls, a blue Mustang drives past, inside are the girls' boyfriends and some of their friends. Then one day the owner sold the horse, breaking Soda's heart. Soda at this time, when he was 12-years-old, was horse crazy. The horse wouldn't listen to anyone else but Soda. Soda fell in love with the horse and had a special relationship with the horse. The horse actually belonged to another man, but Soda worked at the stables where the horse was boarded. He tells her about Soda's horse, Mickey Mouse. How he feels his brother doesn't want him around and is cold toward him and the world at large.įor some reason Ponyboy feels it is easy to open up to Cherry. He opens up to her about his feelings towards Darry. Cherry feels it is not money, but emotions which set the greasers apart from the Socs.īut, Ponyboy also sees he and Cherry have many things in common, such as they both like to watch the sunrise and they both read books. They don't have families which provides them with the emotional and physical support they need, also they feel as if they live life looking at the society from the outside.
The greasers live a life full of disappointment and depravation. Greasers are emotional, they have a different set of morals than Socs. She thinks this is because they have everything they could possibly want, so they are always looking for something to make them happy. While they are walking, Cherry and Ponyboy have a discussion about the differences between Socs and greasers.Ĭherry says it is because Socs have no feelings about anything. Two-Bit convinces the girls to let him take them home in his car, but first they need to walk to his house to pick up the car. The girls don't have a way home, because they refused to be around their boyfriends while they are drinking alcohol.
In The Outsiders, S.E Hinton presents the idea that teenagers can break through stereotypes if they look at life through another perspective as shown in the book when Ponyboy starts to talk to Cherry and Randy and realizes the stereotypes about them are false.Two-Bit, Johnny, and Ponyboy are at the drive-in movie theater with two Soc girls, Cherry and Marcia. This connects to The Outsiders because Ponyboy realizes this after he talks with two Socs, kids from a rival group named Randy and Cherry. This connects to stereotypes because people who follow stereotyped will always eat the perfect bananas however, people who choose to look through another perspective can realize that the imperfect bananas are better. However, people soon realize that when you start to eat bananas that have more spots and are imperfect they turn out to be sweeter and better. When looking at a bunch of bananas in a grocery store, people tend to choose the perfect spotless bananas, since stereotypically food that is perfect looking, with no flaws, taste better. She could stick up toĮxamples Of Stereotypes In The Outsiders 1029 Words | 5 Pages When Cherry was talking to Ponyboy she did like that Dally gave her the coke she even liked him because he was just like Bob.
She did care about Johnny but she just could see him right after the tragedy. She also feels that she can’t go and see Johnny when he was in the hospital because he was the one who killed bob which was her boyfriend that she very much so did care about. Cherry feels like everyone should get along because they “all watch the same sunsets”. My character Cherry, thinks that the world that she lives in is a battle field and some-where out there is a peaceful world. Obviously, Cherry is the character I chose from the book the Outsiders since I see her as courageous, diligent, ambitious. Ponyboy, Johnny, Two-bit, Marcia, and Cherry were walking …show more content… It’s important because Ponyboy was talking to Cherry and say how the Socs have everything they want and have no problems in their life but he was wrong they do. Ponyboy always thinks that the Socs have no problems but actually, they do. You want to know something? Things are rough all over” (Hinton, pages 34-35). We have trouble you’ve never even heard of. I’ll tell you something, Ponyboy, and it may come as a surprise.
My favorite quotation that Cherry said was “I’ll bet you think the Socs have it made. This connected me to Cherry because it showed that where ever you lived, everyone has problems even if you are rich or poor. Character Analysis on Cherry Valance: Academic EssayĬherry’s is the leading female character in the book The Outsiders written by S.E.