Outsiders essay about Darry

A Boy with a Father 's Responsibility Darrel “Darry” Curtis was a 20 year old boy who took responsibility and parented his brothers while keeping two jobs. In the book The Outsiders by S.E Hinton, Darry was a grown up boy, smart and brawn, who was the leader of a gang called the Greasers and was a guardian for his brothers. Darry took this role as a guardian or father of his brothers Sodapop and Ponyboy Curtis after the death of their parents. The Greasers were in a heated rivalry with another gang called the Socs. Darry took responsibility for his family and gang members while working two jobs. Through the ups and downs Darry protected his brothers. Darry, as a 20 year old boy, had enough responsibility to parent his brothers because Darry had two jobs to provide his brothers, Darry was protective, and he was also intelligent.

Darry’s responsibility showed through the way that he worked two jobs and still parented his brothers. Ponyboy stated,“Darry works too long and hard to be interested in a story or a book” (page 2). Ponyboy also said , “Darry worked two jobs at once and made good at both of them, and kept an outstanding record at school” (page 108). This shows that Darry worked so long helping his brothers and keeping two jobs that he did not have enough time to do little things like reading a book. Darry also kept his grades up when he was in highschool and he even got a scholarship , but for the sake of his brothers he didn 't go to college. So while in highschool he had to worry about all his grades and sports he still did good working two jobs and parented his brothers. Darry worked long and hard for his brothers but sometimes he had to be protective and got on to his brothers when they did something that could have impacted their lives in a bad way.

Darry was protective of his brothers and yelled at them for doing the wrong thing and he did that just because he loved them and did not want anything to