In class on Monday, I mentioned something about how Cherry’s character is very important because if they had not met her at the movies, then the Socs never would have tried to beat up Ponyboy and Johnny, and Johnny never would have killed Bob. Cherry and Ponyboy have a connection and she brings out a side in him that only Johnny had really seen, when they were in the church on the hill.
I don’t know why I could talk to her; maybe for the same reason she could talk to me.
is a quote from chapter 3 that I believe sums the relationship of her character’s to Ponyboy’s perfectly. Cherry and Ponyboy understand each other, and it’s after talking to her about sunsets that Ponyboy starts to think that maybe the Socs and the greasers aren’t so different after all.