All+-+Characters

=Characters= Each of you has been allocated two characters to analyse:

Tim Shepard is the leader of another gang of greasers and a respectful friend of Dally (Dallas Winston). Tim Shepard appears near the end of the novel at the start of the rumble between the Socs and the Greasers. Ponyboy thinks of Tim as an "alley cat, hungry an restless". Ponyboy also sees Tim's gang as real street "hoods" and criminals which causes him to realise that his gang is a lot like a bunch of friends trying to survive.
 * Albert - Tim & Jerry**

Jerry Wood is a teacher who only appears once in the novel when he accompanies Ponyboy to the hospital after Ponyboy rescues the children from the fire. Though being a member of the mainstream society, Jerry does not think of Greasers as juveniles but instead thinks of the benefits of being a Greaser.

In the novel "The Outsiders" there is a rivallry between two groups of youths. The Socs and the Greasers. Randy and Bob are both Socs. Bob is one of the high ranked Socs. He is portrayed as the leader of the group. He wears three big rings on his hands when he jumps greasers, the rings impliflies that Bob was the one who beat up Johnny. He is rich and his parents never disciplined him, which made him become very rebellious. His parents set no boundaries and let him "run wild" according to his best friend Randy Adderson. He was stabbed and killed by Johnny Cade after he and his friends tried to drown Ponyboy Curtis, a Greaser. According to Randy, Bob was misunderstood and just wanted someone to tell him "no" but no one ever did that is why he went out and did stupid things.
 * Brandon - Randy & Bob**

Randy Adderson, Bob's best friend. Up until the death of Bob Randy was a usual Soc who beat up Greasers and drove expensice car. When Bob died, Randy decided not to fight in the rumble because he didnt see the point in fighting anymore, beacause he realises that fighting gets no where and there can not be a victory in this war even if the Greasers beat the Soc or the Soc Beat the Greasers. Randy is one of the characters that opens up to Ponyboy.

Bob Sheldon (Soc)Randy Adderson (soc)

Ponyboy Curtus: Ponyboy Curtis is the main character in the outsiders, the whole book is a first person overview of pony's life experiences. pony is a fourteen year old student who gets good grades, watches sunsets, enjoys books and likes going to the local, not like a normal greaser who steals, hangs out in gangs and loves fighting with soc's (rich socials). pony boy was orphaned at a young age and his two older brothers took over as parents. The oldest, Darry, is the leader of the gang and no one messes with him, and the middle brother, Sodapop, who dropped school to get a job at the local gas station for money. the gang is made up of many members and Pony considers them his family. His best mate is Johnny (Johnny cake), who is sixteen but looks fourteen had a run in with a soc (Bob) and was found half dead in a parking lot. Pony wishes he could just escape somewhere where there is no fighting or ground wars and live out the rest of his life there. Darry Curtis: Darry Curtis is the oldest of the three Curtis brothers (Pony, Soda and Darry)at eighteen, and the leader of the gang, and has been caring for his brothers ever since their parents died in a car crash. He is very serious and works at two jobs most of the time and yells at Ponyboy a lot. He is highly intellegent and a great athlete, also incredebly strong. He got angry with Pony one time when he came home late on his own, ended up hitting him and Pony ran away with Johnny. they got caught alone and Bob started drowning Pony, thats when Johnny killed Bob.
 * Daniel - Ponyboy & Darry**


 * Josh - Dally & Steve**
 * Dallas 'Dally' Winston: He is the toughest and the roughest member of the greasers due to him growing up in the violent streets of New York City. Dally is is constanly getting in to trouble with the law over and over again. He rekons that the law is a big joke and only meant for breaking and and joking about.**
 * Steve Randle: He is Sodapop's (Pony Boys Brother) bestfriend since grade school and works at the gas station with Sodapop. Steve is a 17 year old greaser who is smart and cocky and specializes in anything to do with car's if its fixing them, talking about them and even when stealing them.**


 * Matt - Twobit & Paul**
 * Twobit:** Twobit Matthews is a character in the novle The Outsiders who likes to fool around and never takes life seriously and is never responsible. His real names is Keith but everyone calls him Twobit Matthews because "he always gets his two bits worth in" according to Ponyboy. Twobit has a history of failing at school because of his not so serious attitude. Also Twobit regularly shoplifts and carries a sleek black handled switchblade.
 * Paul:** Paul appears once in the story, at the rumble on the Soc side. He used to be good friends with Darry when they played football together.

Sodapop Curtis. Sodapop Curtis is the middle of the three Curtis boys. Sodapop share a close relationship with Ponyboy. Sodapop is a fun loving and easy going person. He was a very popular person and was well known by everyone. He hates it when his brother fights and he feels as if he was “torn between” the two of them. He had a girlfriend named Sandy. She moved to Florida because she got pregnant with another person’s child. Sodapop still like Sandy afterwards but he needed to get over her. Cherry Valance. Cherry is a red haired soc and was Bob’s girlfriend. On the night he was killed, she met Ponyboy at the drive in. At the drive in she also met two other greasers: Dallas and Johnny Cade. She said she could fall in “love with him”, Dallas. She goes to school with Ponyboy and is a cheer leader at the school. After Bob’s death she becomes a spy for the greasers.
 * Tim - Cherry & Sodapop**

**Tom -Johnny** **Johnny**** : a boy once referred to as " ** little dark puppy that has been kicked too many times and is lost in a crowd of strangers" is the "pet" of the gang, everyone looks after him and tries not to let him get to hurt. he is a shy boy with dark greasy hair ,blue eyes and a dominating scar left over from a run in with a group of socs.Due to his run in with the socs he is extremely depressed and scared and prone to nervous twitches. His protector is dally and you learn how powerful their relationship is when dally kills himself because of Johnnies death. **Marcia:** is a background character she is friends with cherry. Her last name is never given. she enjoys coke.