https://padlet.com/2022pagej36/5p3utd1rgdwf Made with a lightning strike of genius en-us 2016-10-28 18:13:33 UTC 2016-10-28 18:28:00 UTC hello@padlet.com 2022pagej36 https://padlet.com/2022pagej36/5p3utd1rgdwf/wish/133980060 Sodapop’s motivation for loving Darry and ponyboy is because they are the only things that Sodapop has and he would do anything to keep them safe. On one part of the story, when Ponyboy and Darry fight for the last time, Sodapop runs out of the house. When they catch him, he says:  "I mean, I can't take sides. It'd be a lot easier if I could, but I see both sides. Darry yells too much and tries too hard and takes everything too serious, and Ponyboy, you don't think enough, you don't realize all Darry's giving up just to give you a chance he missed out on. He could have stuck you in a home somewhere and worked his way through college. Ponyboy, I'm telling you the truth. I dropped out because I'm dumb. I really did try in school, but you saw my grades. Look, I'm happy working in a gas station with cars. You'd never be happy doing something like that. And Darry, you ought to try to understand him more, and quit bugging him about every little mistake he makes. He feels things differently than you do" (150). He said that because he doesn't want Ponyboy and Darry to get hurt. Before Darry hits Ponyboy, Sodapop says that Darry should stop because he didn't want Ponyboy to get hurt by Darry. 

]]> 2016-10-28 18:21:12 UTC https://padlet.com/2022pagej36/5p3utd1rgdwf/wish/133980060 2022pagej36 https://padlet.com/2022pagej36/5p3utd1rgdwf/wish/133980317 Sodapop's strength is that he is always happy most of the time. One example is when Soda and co. go to the hospital to see Johnny, reporters, and police come to interview them. Soda does this: “Sodapop kept them in stitches. He'd grab one guy's press hat and another's camera and walk around interviewing the nurses and mimicking TV reporters. He tried to lift a policeman's gun and grinned so crazily when he was caught that the policeman had to grin too. Soda can make anyone grin” (85) Ponyboy also says, “Soda tries to understand, at least” (3).]]> 2016-10-28 18:22:01 UTC https://padlet.com/2022pagej36/5p3utd1rgdwf/wish/133980317 2022pagej36 https://padlet.com/2022pagej36/5p3utd1rgdwf/wish/133980545 The weakness that Sodapop has is that he has a very low attention span. He even dropped out of school because of it. Soda even got tired of the interviewers when they were at the hospital, “Finally, even Sodapop got tired of the reporter--- he gets bored with the same old thing after a time” (85).

]]> 2016-10-28 18:22:44 UTC https://padlet.com/2022pagej36/5p3utd1rgdwf/wish/133980545 2022pagej36 https://padlet.com/2022pagej36/5p3utd1rgdwf/wish/133980808 Sodapop is a protagonist because he is a main character. He is static because he doesn't change much, and he is round because the author states a lot about him. In one part of the story, Ponyboy says “Soda is handsomer than anyone else I know” (8).  In another part he also says, “He can get drunk in a drag race or dancing without ever getting near alcohol. In our neighborhood it's rare to find a kid who doesn't drink once in awhile. But Soda never touches a drop--- he doesn't need to. He gets drunk on just plain living. And he understands everybody.

]]> 2016-10-28 18:23:40 UTC https://padlet.com/2022pagej36/5p3utd1rgdwf/wish/133980808 2022pagej36 https://padlet.com/2022pagej36/5p3utd1rgdwf/wish/133981394 Soda is an entertainer. Entertainers are energetic, like soda, and they make everyone happy and try to make everyone comfortable. Soda is always happy. In one part of the story, he tries to comfort Pony when Darry talks bad about him. He says, “I told you [Darry] don't mean half of what he says...". Everyone thought Sodapop was funny.

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