What does two bit Matthews look like?

Two-Bit Mathews was around six feet tall, stocky in build, and was very proud of his long, rust-colored sideburns. He had gray eyes and was always wearing a wide grin. Two-Bit is six feet tall in the book as described by Ponyboy Curtis. In The Outsiders novel, Two-Bit's hair is described as 'rust colored.
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What is 2 bit Matthews real name?

Two-Bit Mathews

Two-Bit, whose real name is Keith, is a wisecracking greaser who regularly shoplifts. He prizes his sleek black-handled switchblade. He instigates the hostilities between the Socs and the greasers by flirting with Marcia, the girlfriend of a Soc.
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What represents Two-Bit in The Outsiders?

Two-Bit is a stocky six feet tall, with gray eyes and long, reddish sideburns, of which he is most proud. His wide grin reminds Ponyboy of Will Rogers. He never had much discipline because his mom has to work as a barmaid to support him and his sister after his dad ran out on them.
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How old is Two-Bit Mathews in The Outsiders book?

Steve Randle Soda's best friend and fellow greaser. He is 17 and works at the gas station with Soda. Keith (Two-Bit) Mathews The oldest of the gang, except for Darry, and still a junior in high school at age 18. He is the wisecracking comedian of the gang.
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What is Two-Bit Matthews relationship with ponyboy?

Two-bits relationships to other characters

Ponyboy: He acts like an older brother to Ponyboy. For Example, when Two-bit tackled down Ponyboy and started play fighting. Johnny Cade: Two-bit treated Johnny as if he were his own pet. For example, Pony said everyone in the gang treated Johnny like a pet.
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Does Two-Bit have a sister?

Two-Bit's Sister is the sister of Keith Mathews. Her name was not mentioned throughout the book or the movie. Her father left the family and her mother works as a bar maid to earn money for the family.
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Is Ponyboy his real name?

Author S.E. Hinton wrote The Outsiders in her teens, inspired by the gang violence at her high school in Oklahoma. As her narrator, Ponyboy becomes the most familiar character to the reader—and remains emblematic of the book and its themes. His real name is Ponyboy, making him even more distinctive and memorable.
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How old is Cherry Valance?

Cherry is a 16-year-old girl who is very pretty and has long red hair, and green eyes.
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What does Two-Bit say?

Two-bit means inferior, cheap, worthless, or insignificant. The term is perhaps most commonly used to negatively describe a person considered to be a small-time hack—someone who's not good at what they do due to having a very low level of talent or skill.
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How is Two-Bit loyal?

They're loyal to each other because they know each other well, have grown up together, and have faced hard times together. In the case of the Curtis boys, their loyalty is because they are brothers, and orphaned brothers at that.
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Who died in outsiders?

How does Johnny die in The Outsiders? Johnny dies in the hospital as a result of the injuries he sustained when saving the children from the church fire.
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Why did Dally want two bits knife?

Two-Bit's Switchblade

First of all, the blade is stolen. Second, it represents a sense of the individual power that comes with the potential to commit violence. This symbolism surfaces most clearly when Dally borrows the blade from Two-Bit and uses it to break out of the hospital to join his gang at the rumble.
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Does Two-Bit enjoy drinking and stealing?

He is lazy, meaning that he will most likely not graduate and he will not get a job if he can help it. However, Two-Bit is very loyal to his friends and tough enough to defend them in dangerous situations. He likes to drink, party, steal, fight, and socialize.
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How old is Steve Randle?

Steve Randle is a greaser and a member of The Gang. Seventeen-year-old Steve is tall, lean, cocky, and smart.
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Who is Sodapop's best friend?

Steve Randle: Sodapop's best friend since grade school. mother and father.
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Why do two bits fight?

Still apprehensive about the rumble, Pony questions everyone's motivation for the fight: "Soda fought for fun, Steve for hatred, Darry for pride, and Two-Bit for conformity." Pony can only think of one good reason to fight — self-defense.
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What is Two-Bit gangster?

US informal disapproving. /ˈtuː.bɪt/ uk. /ˈtuː.bɪt/ worth very little, or not very important: He plays a two-bit Chicago gangster in the play.
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What is a Two-Bit lady?

You use two-bit to describe someone or something that you have no respect for or that you think is inferior.
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What does Johnny Cade look like?

Appearance. Ponyboy described Johnny as "Smaller than the rest, with a slight build. He has big black eyes in a dark tanned face; his hair is jet-black and heavily greased and combed to the side, but it is so long that it falls in shaggy bangs across his forehead.
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What is Sodapops real name?

Sodapop Patrick Curtis is the middle Curtis boy, and one of three deuteragonists of The Outsiders.
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Who is the fuzz?

US. Slang. a policeman or the police.
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What does Darry look like?

Appearance. Darry is a muscular and tall man, standing at 6' 2", who is broad shouldered. His hair is said to be like his father's - dark brown that sticks out in the front of his head with a cowlick in the back.
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