Rant

This week, I'm not writing something relating to my theme. Instead, I'm going to be ranting about winter. Honestly, this is my favorite time of year. With winter break and Christmas right around the corner, I'm so incredibly excited. The idea of having a three week off from school puts my mind in a relaxing state. Plus, can we take a moment for the amazing weather we've been having in LA? It's perfect, not too cold and not too hot. The satisfaction of getting a warm drink from Starbucks when it's cold is indescribable. It's also sweater weather, and you're finally able to wear boots and hoodies. Can we talk about how mood boosting it is to hear holiday songs on the radio and sing along at the top of your lungs? Anyways, I know this blog post wasn't as thought-out and organized as my usual blogs, but I felt the need to rant this week. See you next week.   

"Stay Gold"

This week I'm going to talk to you about in my opinion, the most important quote in the book. That quote is "Nothing gold can stay." This quote is from the Robert Frost poem that Pony recites to Johnny when they were hiding out in the church at Windrixville. This line from the poem is saying that all good things eventually come to an end. I think that by the end, the boys relate this quote to the innocence you have in your years of youth, and how you can't be forever protected by the harshness of life. Johnny's last words before he passed were, "Stay gold Ponyboy, stay gold." Referring to the quote above, Johnny was trying to drive Pony into remaining gold/innocent. It was now clear to Johnny how useless fighting is and deep down knows that his best friend is more than the "hood" that others assume he is. He wants him to cling onto the qualities that differs him from the rest of the guys in the gang and makes him so individually unique. That's it for this week.

Steve Randel

This week, I'm indroducing you to Steve Randel. Even though he's not a huge part of the story line, I still thought it was crucial to mention him as one of the characters. Steve has been Soda Pop's best friend since grade school, and they both work at the gas station together. Steve is seventeen. He's very tall and quite slim.  He's also extremely cocky and is also bright. Steve isn't really favored by Pony either. He considers Pony as a "tag along." Steve isn't really talked about a lot in the story and in the movie. That's it for this week.  

Johnny Cade

This week, I'm introducing you to Johnny Cade, one of the boys in the gang. Johnny is "the gang's pet," he's the quiet one in the group of boys that they couldn't get along without. He's been hurt both physically and mentally, he's kinda like "a puppy that's been kicked too many times." Johnny was badly beaten by the Socs, that's why he started carrying a switch blade around with him and vowed that he would kill the next person that hurt him. Along with the incident with the Socs, he is also always being both verbally and physically abused by his parents. Because of that, going home is the last thing that we wishes to do. If it wasn't for the gang, he wouldn't know how it feels like to have love and affection. Johnny is a bit smaller than the rest. He has these big black eyes that are placed on a dark tanned face. His hair was jet-black and heavily greased and combed to the side, but it was so long that it fell in shaggy bangs across his forehead. He also always had a nervous, suspicious look in his eyes. That's it for this week.

Cherry Valance

This week, I'm not introducing you guys to one of the boys in the gang, actually someone who is quite the opposite. This person is Cherry Valance. She is a redhead Soc girl, Bob's girlfriend, who Pony-boy meets at the drive-in when Dally is bothering her and Marcia. Most of the other Socs are stuck-up brats that always have everything handed to them, but Cherry is different. She's like Pony, she's a dreamer that's not like the other kids in her pack. Cherry is nice, caring, and stands up for what she believes in. She tries to get Pony to see how the Socs, like the Greasers, can also be individually unique and just as troubled. Cherry later then,acts as a spy for the greasers. She wants all of the fighting to end between the two rivals, and does whatever she can to balance out the two. In the book, she is described to be a beautiful red-headed cheerleader. That's it for this week.

Two-Bit Mathews

This week, I'm going to indroduce you to Keith Two-Bit' Mathews. Two-bit is the oldest in the pack, and as you might have guessed by his name, he's also the jokester of the group. He's the fun and talkative person that you like being around and makes uneasy situations lighter. Two-Bit makes a smart comment to say to anyone, even the cops. Everything seems funny to him, even stealing, which he does quite often. Two-Bit is kind of like a grown up kid, he likes cake and Mickey Mouse,but he also likes beer and cigarettes.(As seen in the gif above.) Physically, he is described to wear long and rusty side burns. He's about 6 feet tall and is quite pudgy with this pair of gray eyes. Two-Bit always carries around a handled switch blade that he has been sharpening for a long time (which he later then hands over to Dal). That's it for this week.

Sodapop Curtis

This week I'm going to introduce you to Sodapop Curtis, the middle child of the Curtis brothers. Soda is the happy-go-lucky brother who has a goofy grin that you can't help but love. He's the type of person who tries to understand what you're going through and help you out, even if he's never gone through it himself. Pony always goes to him when he's in trouble and he's always the one breaking things up between Darry and Pony, which is why he says it's "like tug of war" , because he's always torn between his two brothers. Sodapop is a high school drop-out and works at the local DX gas station. He claims that school is too boring for him and doesn't have any action. He likes a challenge which is the reason that  he likes fighting so much.  Soda is "movie star handsome" he has silky dark gold hair and these reckless dark brown eyes. That's it for this week.