Imagine you have it all, your soc "basically" have at least a good amount of money and all of a sudden your parents die in a car crash. That happen to you and that forced you to grow up. That's Sodapop in the novel “The Outsiders”, by S.E. Hilton. His parents were killed in a car crash. And that had a huge impact on Sodapop, Ponyboy and Darry (Being all Brothers). Since that happen they basically turned into greasers without a choice. Just to show have fast it can all change.(Rich to poor).
Now being pretty poor Sodapop had to drop out of school and get a job at a gas station for Ponyboy in order for Ponyboy to stay in school. By dropping out of being a football star in high school and getting a job at the gas station shows a loss of innocence. How I know that is because for the book for evidence says that in (Chapter 3, Page 40) “Sodapop dropped out of school so he could get a job and keep Ponyboy in school”. And it also says that it will be Darry’s turn soon when he has to get two jobs and tries to keep a family without having any fun like Sodapop which Sodapop has been not doing (Sodapop does not have any fun).
That is some textual evidence that Sodapop has a loss of innocence. But it is really too bad if that where to ever happen to someone because they put their education on the line so (Someone) or in this case Ponyboy could keep going. In my option I think Sodapop should have stayed in school and Sodapop should just have one job and then Darry gets a job to so then they can still be in school and not drop out and damage your education.
Even before of dropping out of school when Sodapop was still young, he had some difficult circumstances that change his life, forcing them to grow up, mature. And that is why I think he has a loss of innocence.All of that happen just as fast as a car crash and happen because of the car crash.
That’s why I chose Sodapop for my loss of innocence.
Something happen to the piece. You can't see all of it.
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