What are three metaphors and three similes in chapters seven and eight of The Outsiders?

Chapters seven and eight of S.E. Hinton's novel The Outsiders take place in the aftermath of the church fire where Ponyboy, Johnny and Dally distinguish themselves as heroes. Johnny is badly injured and will later die, while Dally is severely burned but will survive. Chapter seven describes the events leading up to the rumble between the greasers and the Socs. In this chapter, Ponyboy speaks with Randy and comes to the realization that the Socs are "just" people and have problems too. In chapter eight, Ponyboy and Two-Bit visit Johnny and Dally in the hospital. Hinton uses figurative language such as metaphors and similes in a few instances in these chapters. A metaphor is a comparison of two unlike things with the intent of giving added meaning to one of them. A simile is a metaphor which uses the words like or as in the comparison:

Metaphors:

• At the beginning of chapter seven Sodapop is joking around with the police and the reporters who have come to the hospital to talk to Ponyboy about saving the kids from the fire. Ponyboy compares Sodapop to a "long-legged Palomino colt" because he always has to be involved in whatever is going on and have his "nose" into it.


• A little later in chapter seven, Two-Bit and Steve have come to see Ponyboy, who has just come home from the hospital. Two-Bit takes a look at Ponyboy's hair, which Johnny cut as a disguise while they were at the church, and compares Ponyboy to someone who has been scalped by "wild Indians." He says, "What little squaw's got that tuff-lookin' mop of yours, Ponyboy?"


• The greasers compare Darry to "Superman" because he is extremely muscular and strong. 

Similes

• Ponyboy compares Darry's muscles to large baseballs. Ponyboy describes the time that Two-Bit's mother warned Darry about leaving the door unlocked because of burglars. Darry said he wasn't afraid of burglars, "flexing his muscles so that they bulged like oversized baseballs..."


• While Ponyboy and Two-Bit are visiting Johnny in the hospital, Johnny is so pale that Ponyboy compares his color to the pillow: "he was as pale as the pillow and looked awful."


• After confronting Johnny's mother, who is quite bitter over her son's choice of friends, Ponyboy thinks about his own mother and compares her beauty and personality to that of Sodapop and Darry: "I remembered my mother...beautiful and golden, like Soda, and wise and firm, like Darry"