Ponyboy Curtis is a 14-year-old boy whose world has been turned upside down. His parents were killed in an automobile accident just eight months before The Outsiders story takes place. He lives with his oldest brother, Darry, who is 20 years old and has legal custody of him and his other brother, Sodapop, who is 16.
Darrel, known as "Darry," is a twenty-year-old greaser who is raising Ponyboy because their parents have died in a car crash. Strong, athletic, and intelligent, Darry has quit school. He works two jobs to hold the family together. The unofficial leader of the greasers, he becomes an authority figure for Ponyboy. Sodapop, sometimes called "Soda," is the middle of the three Curtis brothers. He is energetic, disinterested in school, and movie-star handsome.... He reminds Darry and Ponyboy that they "ought to be able to stick together against everything" since they're all they have left family wise.Ponyboy feels that he loves Soda more than Darry, because Soda is different from other people. He thinks that Darry treats him like a child. At only twenty years old, Darry acts older than he is. He is "hard and firm" while Soda is always grinning.Johnny Cade is a vulnerable sixteen-year-old greaser in a group defined by toughness and a sense of invincibility. He comes from an abusive home he takes to the greasers because they are his on reliable family.Dally's violent tendencies make him more dangerous than the other greasers, and he takes pride in his criminal record.Two-Bit Matthews is the oldest member of the Greasers. He is optimistic, kind, and very funny; he loves cracking jokes, and he is always loyal to the other Greasers.Steve knows everything about cars and specializes in stealing hubcaps. He is cocky and intelligent, tall and lean. He wears his thick hair in a complicated arrangement of swirls.
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