Read the passage from the novel The Outsiders. Soda is different from anybody; he understands everything, almost. Like he’s never hollering at me all the time the way Darry is, or treating me as if I was six instead of fourteen. . . . He’s always happy-go-lucky and grinning, while Darry’s hard and firm and rarely grins at all. . . . I don’t know which way’s the best. I’ll find out one of these days.

Which evidence from the passage best supports the thesis that the narrator looks up to Soda?

“Soda is different from anybody.”
“He understands everything, almost.”
“Darry’s hard and f