Randy

Authors Note: I'm going to tell you about Randy, a soc in the book "The Outsiders", and how he changes and becomes a dynamic character. I would like feed back on if i'm clear on my thoughts and ideas.

Randy is a heartless soc…at least that’s what he was at the beginning of “The Outsiders”. On page 102 Randy shows a bug change of heart. He tells Ponyboy all about how Bob was troubled and that Bob just needed his parents to set rules and tell him “no.” Randy says that no matter if the greasers win the rumble or not, socs will always be socs and greasers will always be greasers. “Nothing will change, it doesn’t matter.” Randy says. And to add more proof to this, Randy also says that he will not go to the rumble and that’s saying something. That’s saying that he doesn’t want to fight anymore. Now that he’s lost his best friend Bob, he just got a wake-up call saying HELLO STOP FIGHTING! Even Ponyboy saw it, “Randy was supposed to be too cool to feel anything, and yet there was pain in his eyes.” Randy finally shows that he is just a kid, and that he has feeling too. At the end of Ponyboy and Randy’s conversation Randy states “Thanks, grease…I didn’t mean that. I meant, thanks, kid.” He corrected himself from saying greaser and that should be enough to tell you that Randy turned into a dynamic character! If I had to compare Randy to another character...it would definitely be "Andy Sacks" from the movie "The Devil wears Prada." Andy Sacks turns out to be exactly what Randy turned out to be. They are both dynamic characters. In the beginning of the movie Andy clearly says "A million girls would kill for this job...the thing is i'm not one of them." Andy just got a job in a runway fashion magazine. In the beginning of the movie she was a total mess, she wore the ugliest clothes and wore NO MAKEUP! At the end of the movie, she wears the cutest clothes and shes beautiful! They are both the same type of character.