How does cherry describe bob

When he regains consciousness, the Socs have run away. He is lying on the pavement next to Johnny. Ponyboy panics, but Johnny remains calm. They decide to go to Dally, thinking he might be able to help them.

They find Dally at the house of Buck Merril, his rodeo partner. He manages to get the boys fifty dollars, a change of clothing for Ponyboy, and a loaded gun. He instructs them to take a train to Windrixville, where they can hide in an abandoned church. Ponyboy and Johnny get on a train, and Ponyboy goes to sleep. When they get to Windrixville, they hop off the train and find the church, where they collapse into exhausted sleep.

In these chapters, Hinton uses symbols to represent the tensions between the two socioeconomic groups. In this section, and in most of the novel, the greasers move about on foot, leaving themselves vulnerable to the Socs, who are protected in their cars.

Ponyboy identifies Bob, a Soc, by the large rings he wears on his fingers, and, of course, jewelry of this kind is a traditional symbol of wealth. But Bob also uses these rings as weapons in his attacks, in the same way that brass knuckles are used to increase the damage of a punch in a fight. Therefore, on a symbolic level, Bob transforms his wealth into a physical weapon.

Greasers, on the other hand, cannot represent themselves with material luxuries. Their primary identifying symbol is their long hair. Unlike cars or rings, hair is a costless symbol, all the cheaper because the greasers do not have to pay to cut or style their hair. Cars and jewelry symbolize the Socs; hair symbolizes the greasers. On a psychological level, this incident presents a crisis for Ponyboy because it casts doubt in his mind over the burgeoning conclusions he makes about the commonalities between the Socs and the greasers.

If Johnny had not attacked Bob, Ponyboy would have drowned. Although Johnny commits murder, he does not lose our sympathy. On the day of the rumble , Cherry is sitting in her red Corvair in the vacant lot. Ponyboy and Two-Bit are walking home at this time, and they run into Cherry.

Two-Bit asks her how the Socs are going to fight in the rumble, and she says it would be all fair; no weapons. Two-Bit thanks her, and she stops Ponyboy so they can talk. She tells Ponyboy that Randy wasn't going to participate in the upcoming rumble because Bob was his longest and best friend and he is tired of all the fighting.

Ponyboy accepts this. Cherry asks how Johnny is doing, and Ponyboy tells her that he isn't doing good and asks if she could visit him. Cherry declines this, and says she can't because Bob was her boyfriend and he was murdered by Johnny. Cherry explains to Ponyboy that there was a side of Bob that not everybody saw that made you want to follow him. Ponyboy knew that she saw this in Dally, and that was why she was afraid to see him and love him. Ponyboy quickly forgave Cherry, but insulted her saying he doesn't want her to see Johnny because she is a traitor to the Socs and not even loyal to the greasers, and that it doesn't make up for the fact that she gets to sit in her car while Soda has to drop out of school to survive, and that she never feels sorry for them.

Ponyboy sees Cherry's face, and she is about to cry, which makes him feel ashamed. Ponyboy hated seeing girls cry. Cherry tells Ponyboy she liked him from the start because of the way he talked and because he is a nice kid, which is a rarity, and she wanted to help him and the other greasers. Ponyboy asks her if she could see the sunset well from the West Side, and she confirms this as true.

Ponyboy says that she can see it well from the East Side, too. She smiles through teary eyes and thanks Ponyboy. Ponyboy noted that she has green eyes and left for home. Cherry makes a final appearance during the court trial with her parents. Cherry told the court what had happened before the manslaughter, saying the Socs were drunk, all while she was sad. In the end, she helped Ponyboy win the case, making him be able to stay with his brothers.

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Jay R. Wiki Organization. Explore Wikis Community Central. Register Don't have an account? Cherry Valance. View source. History Talk 8. Part of it is, but not all. You greasers have a different set of values. You're more emotional. We're sophisticated cool to the point of not feeling anything. Nothing is real with us. You know, sometimes I'll catch myself talking to a girl-friend, and realize I don't mean half of what I'm saying.

I don't really think a beer blast on the river bottom is super-cool, but I'll rave about one to a girl-friend just to be saying something. I never told anyone that. For the best experience on our site, be sure to turn on Javascript in your browser. Bob is Cherry's boyfriend, and he's a complete dirtbag. In a novel full of mostly likable characters, this guy is completely hate-inspiring. He's the hard-drinking ringleader of one of the gangs of Socials terrorizing Greasers.

Pony and Johnny are pretty sure Bob is the guy who kept his rings on while using Johnny's face as a punching bag:. Johnny was breathing heavily and I noticed he was staring at the Soc's hand. He was wearing three heavy rings. Yup: he's one sadistic bully. He's also the guy who orders David to "give [Pony] a bath" in the fountain in the park. We aren't sure exactly what happens while Pony is being drowned, but we imagine that Bob approaches Johnny.

How else would Johnny get close enough to stab him? Interestingly, Johnny says he killed Bob to stop David from drowning Pony. So maybe he went after David with the knife and stabbed Bob when Bob tried to stop him. These are things we can't know.