For example, it says “I just stared at the hole in the toe of my tennis shoe. Me and Darry just didn't dig each other. I never could please him. He would have hollered at me for carrying a blade if I had carried one. If I brought home B's, he wanted A's, and if I got A's, he wanted to make sure they stayed A's. If I was playing football, I should be in studying, and if I was reading, I should be out playing football. He never hollered at Sodapop--- not even when Soda dropped out of school or got tickets for speeding. He just hollered at me” (12). This is Darry, the mama lion training one to be the best it can be and allowing the other to go and collect meat and make money. Mama Lion would do anything for it’s cubs, it shows this again when it says “Darry didn’t deserve to work like an old man when he was only twenty. He had been a real popular guy in school; he had been the captain of the football team and voted boy of the year. But we didn’t have enough money for him to go to college, even with the athletic scholarship he won” (18).  He gave up everything, all his opportunities, his athletic scholarship, his class as a possible soc and all his friends and time due to his need to support his family.

Darry’s archetype is the ruler. The reason I think this is because he is always the leader and nobody can stand up to him. Also he will protect anyone under his wing by any means necessary.

Ponyboy is the adventurer because he even says all throughout the story that he wants to explore and he is definitely adventurous and brave because he wants to find something better, something new, the country. "I wanted to be out of towns and away from excitement. I only wanted to lie on my back under a tree and read a book or draw a picture, and not worry about being jumped or carrying a blade or ending up married to some scatterbrained broad with no sense" (42). 

Dallas Winston is the outlaw because he doesn’t really pay attention to laws and he thinks they are there just to be broken. He likes to break rules as long as it’s fun.

Two bit is the jester because he is always cracking jokes and doing things to make others laugh he also likes to do most things sneakily and to live in the moment by doing things against the rules. It shows this when it says “He took life as a joke… Everything he said was so irresistibly funny” (9-10). He adds a lot to the story by the humor he is constantly throwing in  “ Life was one big joke to Two-Bit” (9). This shows his good sense of humor and how everything he does is funny, making him the jester.

 Randy is the ruler at the beginning of the book but turns into the regular guy after he says this “I'm sick of it because it doesn't do any good. You can't win, you know that, don't you?" he’s basically saying that everything with the “Socs” and the “Greasers” is pointless and nothing will ever happen because nobody can win.  So he doesn’t go to the rumble to save himself and his friends.

Foreshadowing

The reason they used foreshadowing in the book is to tell the reader that something bad is soon going to happen. Also to let you know that this little accident could lead to a chain reaction of bad things. 

Textual Evidence: “ We were careful with our cigarettes--- if that old church ever caught fire there'd be no stopping it” (68). The author uses the words “no stopping it” to show how bad it would be if it did catch fire. Which it later did.

Irony

This isn't a book that I would expect irony from but the irony I found in it is quite funny. In the book they make all the Greasers sound bad and gangster, but nobody thought that when the church started on fire everyone thought that they would laugh but instead they jumped into the burning church and grabbed the kids, they saved the kids instead of  themselves. 

Textual Evidence “I'll get them, don't worry!" I started at a dead run for the church, and the man caught my arm. "I'll get them. You kids stay out!" I jerked loose and ran on“ (78). That shows how much he wanted to save those kids even though a bigger man could've saved them.