CharacterReflectionFT

=**Character Reflection essay: Sodapop **= There are Greasers and there are Socs. Greasers are the poor, underclass kids that normally drop out of school. The Socs are the rich kids that think they are better then everyone. Some of the also like to cause fights. They are both enemy's but there is one person in the story that i liked the most and that is Sodapop. I like Sodapop the most because he is just like me. Now if I had to describe him in three adjectives I would say that he is handsome, he is funny, and he thinks that he is dumb, and so I going to write a reflection about Sodapop, explaining these three adjectives.

The first adjective about Sodapop was that he is handsome. An example of Soda being handsome is that Ponyboy always says that he is handsome. Pony will be describing someone and then he will say that Soda is very handsome. Then on page 7, Pony says "Soda is handsomer than anyone else I know. Not like Darry, Soda's movie-star kind of handsome, the kind people stop on the streets and watch him go by" (Hinton). Also when Pony was talking to Cherry, Cherry asked about his other brother Soda and then she says she has seen him at the gas station and said that he was also very handsome.

Now, the second adjective about Soda is that he is very funny. An example of him being funny is that he always tries to make everyone laugh or grin. Then, on page 100 and 101, Pony says "Soda tried to lift the police mans gun and was grinning so crazily, when he was caught, the police man grinned too. Soda can make anyone grin" (Hinton). Soda is very funny because when he tried to take the police mans gun, he should have gotten arrested or pushed on the ground because you aren't supposed to take a police mans gun.

Last but not least, Soda thinks that he is dumb. An example of Soda thinking that he is dumb is because Pony always asks him why did he drop out and he always says because he is dumb. Also, on page 17, Pony asks, "Why did you drop out of school?" Then Soda says, "Because I'm dumb, the only things that I was passing in anyway were auto mechanics and gym" (Hinton). Then later in the story, again, Pony asks again why he dropped out and he said that he wasn't good at school and that he was better of just working for the gas station and then when he gets a lot more money he can start help paying for the house.

Sodapop was also a lot more things then just funny, handsome, and dumb. He was happy-go-lucky, he didn't like it when Pony and Darry fought, and he also really missed and loved Sandy. It says in the book that he said Sandy was his love and that they were happy together. If you ask me, I think Soda would be a very good and fun brother or friend to have. He also sounds like he would protect me if I was ever in a fight if he was my brother and that is good. That is why Sodapop is my favorite character in the story and that is why I chose him on my reflection.