About Me

My name is Sodapop, Sodapop Curtis. I'm 16 going on 17. I live on the east side of the city. I have 2 brothers, my younger brother who is 14 and the one I get along best with called Ponyboy Curtis and my older brother called Darrel Curtis who is 20. Since our parents died Darry has had to start working to sustain the family. I like this girl called Sandy and I wish that I could marry her. I don't really like school and I also don't like reading, but there was one thing I loved; my horse Mickey  Mouse. I loved him so much I wish I could ride him everyday but he is gone. A great part of being me is that I belong to family of people called the Greasers and we aren’t really a blood related family we are some boys who understand each other, enjoy each other and always have each others backs when needed and I feel blessed to be part of this group of great boys. 

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Mickey Mouse

I remember when I had the thing I most loved and the thing I cared a lot about; my buckskin called Mickey Mouse. He was the most beautiful  horse me and my friends have ever seen. He wasn't really a horse he was a pony. He was a type of dark gold pony. I got him when I was 12 going on 13. I used to work at a horse stable and when I found this most beautiful horse. His name was already Mickey Mouse.Pony once told Cherry this “It belonged to a guy who kept him in the stables where Soda used to work. Mickey Mouse wasn’t Soda’s horse though.” Pony was telling the truth Mickey Mouse was never really mine but it felt as if he was because we had a very strong connection. He would always be kicking other horses. I remember that he would only follow my orders. I also remember how he would always chew on my shirt or on my collar. I remember that I was very sad the day that the real owner sold Mickey Mouse. I was crying so much and I still miss him a lot. Ponyboy told me he was trying to save up all the money he could for a year just so that he could by it and give Mickey Mouse to me again.

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The Crime Scene

I can remember the thing that caused the whole incident that made Ponyboy and Johnny ran away from the east side. It happened one night when Ponyboy was out with Johnny and Dallas Winston and they were in the cinema and they started talking to some girls. Their names were Marcia and Cherry and they were all Socs which means that they were rich and more fortunate. The Socs are our worst enemies. Then the girls’ boyfriends showed up and they were every drunk. After the girls talked to them the boys they left. Then Johnny and Pony started to have a smoke when suddenly Pony realized it was late and decided to come home.

It was about 2 in the morning when he got home trying not to wake me and Darry up. I was sleeping on the sofa when he came in. I remember Darry started to scream at him for being out at that our of the night and I tried to calm him down but he yelled at me and told me not to defend Pony. Then Darry slapped Pony’s face and Pony was so shocked he started crying and left the house running while Darry screamed for Pony to come back but he just kept on running until he found Johnny. Then both ran for a while until they got to the fountain at the park. He told Johnny “It was Darry. He hit me.” They had a smoke until the boyfriends of the girls they talked to at the cinema showed up in their blue Mustang.

They started talking and cussing at each other until one of them decided to drown Pony. The rest of the Socs gathered up to help him. Pony was about to die when Johnny took out his switchblade and stabbed one of them. They watched him die and they knew they were going to get caught for this until they decided to run away. 

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The Heroes at the Hospital

 I was worried sick because since the night of the murder we hadn’t seem them until we saw them at the hospital in Windrixville. Pony told me the whole story and how they ended up from leaving the city to getting to a hospital. He told me that the church which was where they were living after they left was burning and that him and Johnny were saving some children who were in the church until a wooden plank fell on Johnny’s back and then Pony and Dallas went to help him but they fainted. 

Pony woke up in the ambulance. Darry and I finally saw him at the hospital. We found it strange that Pony had died his hair. Thank God Pony was ok and Dallas was recovering but the problem was Johnny. He had 3rd degree burns and had a broken back. He couldn’t feel anything below his waist. The nurses said that he could die at any moment but they wouldn’t let us see him. We couldn’t believe that was true because Johnny was the one that all us Greasers cared about the most. Some reporters had been asking Pony questions and he started to get dizzy then I had to step up and tell them not to yell at him because he was in no mood to be yelled at. 

The reporters wanted Darry and I also to be in the news and the pictures in the news because they said that it was part of public appeal because we looked very pretty. Once they left the hospital got quiet and I finally took a nap on Darry’s lap. Darry told Pony when I had shut my eyes “He didn’t get much sleep this week. He hardly slept at all.” Neither me nor Darry had gotten much sleep because we were worried sick about Pony but at the end we were happy that Pony was ok.

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The Rumble

Yesterday we the Greasers had a rumble against the Socs. We were extremely excited we went to the empty lot all jumping as if we were celebrating a victory even though we hadn’t started fighting yet. We got there before the Socs but there was another group of boys there. The boys were  from another city and their group was called the Brumly. The Socs definitely outnumbered us. Pony told me he had counted 22 Socs. “They lined up silently, facing  us, and we lined up facing them.” Then we got the rules.

Darry said that he was ready to take on anyone when blond boy called Paul stepped up. They  started to circle around in a fight. No one would swing until Dallas yelled hold up and came running. That was the moment Paul hit Darry in the jaw and that was also the moment that the rumble had begun. It wasn’t a nice thing to watch. Dally’s arm was hurt but he still wanted to take part in this extreme moment for us Greasers. He got out of the hospital by threatening the nurse with his switchblade. The whole fight was ugly. There people throwing fists and kicks, there were people jumping on each others backs and there were people breaking bones and getting seriously hurt. It was something that needed to be done so that we would show the who we are. 

We were fighting and showing our dignity when they started leaving. We were so happy that we had won the rumble. We might have been all bruised up, with broken bones and with blood constantly dripping from our heads but at least were happy to know that all that we had been through was going to be worth something in the end. 

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