HELP!! ITS DUE TOMORROW 8. What important information do I need to know about the outsider characters?

Basically the main ones of the story

Explanation:

Ponyboy Curtis

he is 14 and is the protagonist. his parents died in a car accident so ponyboy lives with his brothers darry and sodapop

Johnny Cade

he is 16 and is very fearful. he lives with alcoholic and abusive parents so hes always nervous and sensitive, he considers his gang as his true family so they protect him. mostly dally

Dallas Winston

he is 17 and is the toughest hood in the group of greasers. unlike his friends, does not put grease in his hair. hes very violent and is has pride in his criminal record

Darrel Curtis

he is a 20 and is the oldest brother and is raising ponyboy because of the parents who died in the car crash. he quitted school and has 2 jobs to keep them together.

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i have read the novel roll of thunder hear my cry by mildred d. taylor.

1. this isn't like any other story i've read or watched because it is about a black family in mississippi right after slavery in the u.s. had become illegal. most of the novels i have read were about slavery. another point is that the author of the novel used symbolism in a way i haven't seen before. for example she uses thunder as something negative meaning something bad will happen. but by the end of the novel, she made thunder a good thing.

2.   one character that changed during the novel was stacey. stacey is the eldest child of the black logan family. around the begging of the novel stacey was avoiding the white boy jeremy simms. he had a dislike for jeremy's family. but at the end of the novel stacey began to like jeremy.

3. the author starts the novel with the problem that the children of the logan family have to avoid the white kid school bus while walking to school.

- "the die is cast; i have consented to return if we are not destroyed. thus are my hopes blasted by cowardice and indecision; i come back ignorant and disappointed. it requires more philosophy than i possess to bear this injustice with patience. i have lost my hopes of utility and glory; i have lost my friend."