Cherry Valance's Disappearance

When Cherry Valance, said things are rough all over, she meant that the Soc’s weren’t just what was displayed to them on the outside, and during the fights, they are also people that have lives, and families, and friends. When Cherry and Marcia are at the movies, the Greasers show up, and Ponyboy engages in a conversation with Cherry and she says that, “We have troubles you've never even heard of”(Hinton 34)Cherry Valance says this, because the Socs aren’t just the “rich kids, the West-side Socs”(34), they are real people with real problems. Another quote that readers may see is found towards the ending of the book, when the Socs pull up to the gas station that Ponyboy and Two-Bit are at. Randy says that, “(116). He kept trying to make someone
This could have affected Bob’s personal life, because since his parents wouldn’t say no, he will do whatever he wants and could get into some serious trouble, which eventually happens when he is stabbed by Johnny. Finally, another quote that supports my claim occurs towards the end of that same conversation as before, when Randy says that, “Sometimes I think it's the ones in the middle that are really the lucky stiffs..."(117). Randy is saying this, because he knows that being a greaser isn’t easy, with all the criticism from other people, and he knows that being a Soc is not easy, because of the problems included in it and his own experiences, so he is explaining to Ponyboy, that it is the people who are not Greasers, or Socs, that are lucky. In Conclusion, When Cherry Valance, said “things are rough all over”, she meant that the Socs are not the brutal mean kids that beat up Greasers 24/7, they are real people with real feelings, and real friends, and real family, and most important of all a real life, that does not revolve around the beating up of Greasers. They have real problems in life, that cannot be solved by money, or cool clothes or cool expensive