Charlie and Sodapop are the ones who are thoughtful but make bad choices. Charlie before ending up in juvenile detention, innocent and caring, had only robbed the candy store because I felt he wanted to make his mother happy by having enough money to go to Puerto Rico where he explained to his boys that his life there was much better there . Now in The Outsiders all the kids are gang affiliated “I'm a greaser, I'm a JD and a thug. I blacken the name of our beautiful city. I hit people. I rob gas stations. They are a threat to society. Man, I'm having fun” (Sodapop page 136). Sodapop seems to be okay with the bad boy role and okay with the path he's chosen to take in life without his