Ponyboy In The Outsiders

In the book the outsiders Ponyboy is the main character. He is mainly distinctive from the rest of the characters by his physical traits and by his actions. Ponyboy was harassed several times by the Socs just because he was a greaser. Overall Ponyboy didn't use his head before he his actions. It caused him to get into many accidents such as when he was jumped in the beginning of the story because he walking home from the movie theaters by himself. Not only did Ponyboy not use his head he also was altruistic. An example of this is when he ran into the burning church to save kids even though it could have killed him.

First and foremost, Ponyboy Curtis is a fourteen-year-old boy, who is telling the story of the Outsiders. Therefore, in his point of view, the reader encounters the story. It's like seeing the story through his eyes. Ponyboy strikes the reader as a moderately honest and sharped-eye, as the narrator.

Ponyboy Curtis in the fourteen-year-old boy that explains the story in both the book and the movie, and also the youngest of the greasers. Ponyboy is very intelligent compared to the rest of the gang he is most defenatly the smartest to them all. Because his parents have died in a car accident, Ponyboy lives with his two brothers Darry and Sodapop in both the book and movie. Darry repeatedly accuses Ponyboy of lacking common sense in the book more so then in the movie, but Ponyboy is a much brighter then his brother takes him for. Throughout the novel, Ponyboy struggles with class division, violence, innocence, and familial love but in the movie they dont focus on his school as much. He matures over the course of the book and the movie both.

Due to his gang’s influences, Ponyboy becomes a loyal, emotional and unruly greaser. He stays with his friends when they are in trouble, gets scared by Socs and smokes and drinks. Throughout the book, Pony witnessed many tragedies like his friends dieing. Because he survived many traumas, Pony became the kid he is

Imagine being dumb, stealing and carrying blades everywhere you go, and being unable to feel deeply, those words would make people think of Greasers. Most people when they think of gangs they think, that they fight, steal, and do not care about what is going on around them. Those statements that Greaser's and other assortments of gangs are dumb, criminals, and unfeeling may not be true, Ponyboy, the main character in S.E. Hinton’s book The Outsiders, opposes all of those statements.

At the beginning of the book, Ponyboy is in intelligent, young teen, but he lacks the perspective to understand the environment around him. He can only see his side of the story and fails to understand why others act the way they do. The first example of this is his oldest brother Darry. He thinks Darry hates him because he is always giving Ponyboy a hard time about his lack of common sense, his grades,...

Why doesn't Johnny and Ponyboy come clean and confess to the police about murdering Bob in self-defense? The reason that Ponyboy and Johnny didn't come clean is because they were scared and didn't want to go to jail. Also because Ponyboy didn't know if the soc was gonna kill him or just trying to give him a scare or if the soc was actually trying to kill him. Another reason is because if Ponyboy confessed to it then the cops would most likely believe the socs then the greasers.

In the 1960’s, many people were placed into categories. The main protagonist in The Outsiders is a young boy named Ponyboy, who has had a rough life and gone through traumatic events. In the book, The Outsiders, S.E. Hinton uses the actions and attitude of Ponyboy to reflect the turmoil of the 1960’s.

Changes can be hard, but it is something we need. In the novel The Outsiders, written by S.E Hinton, all of the characters changed throughout the book. Out of all the characters, Ponyboy Curtis is the character that changed the most because he starts to understand the affection of Darry, he understands the similarities between the two groups, and he learns to protect himself.

In the novel “The Outsiders” by S.E Hinton, the issue is if the main character, Ponyboy should stay with his brothers or go into the system. Ponyboy should stay with his brothers. The reason this is an issue is because Ponyboy lives in a gang environment and only has his two older brothers to raise him and people believe that he should not live like that.

In my opinion, Ponyboy Curtis, Johnny Cade, and Dallas (Dally) Winston are the most important characters in the ‘The Outsiders’. Ponyboy is the protagonist and narrator of the movie. The movie is portrayed through Ponyboy’s perspective throughout the movie. Even if the movie had the same plot, a different point of view would change the movie drastically. Ponyboy’s decisions heavily influences the plot. For example, Ponyboy stayed in the lot with Johnny after the movie then got into trouble for staying out late. This led to Darry hitting Ponyboy in anger, then Ponyboy running away with Johnny to the park, where Johnny stabbed Bob. The plot continued to develop due to Ponyboy’s choices, such as going into the burning church to save the kids.

“When a car drove up and three Socs got out, I just sat there and looked at them and took another swallow of the Pepsi. I wasn’t scared. It was the oddest feeling in the world”, ( Hinton, 170 ). In The Outsiders by S.E Hinton, Ponyboy struggles to find his true self and progresses into adulthood. Ponyboy runs from home after a fight between his brothers and gets caught in a murder case with his best friend Johnny. Ponyboy’s coming of age story tells how he matures along with his brothers Sodapop and Darry, along with Ponyboy growing a deep empathy for others. Ponyboy matures throughout the story because he learns to focus less on himself and more on others, along with him becoming more serious and him finding out what he wants to do with his life.

In the book, The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton, Ponyboy forms his identity over the course of the novel.

The Outsiders written by S.E Hinton is about a 14-year-old boy Ponyboy who is part of the ‘greaser’ gang. The story follows Ponyboy and shows his struggles through life, as he believes he is an outsider in society.

Overtime Ponyboy began to change because he became more courageous. For example the church fire in Windrixville showed a sign of courage when he ran into the burning building to go save innocent little children. While trying to save these children his best pal Johnny was hit by a piece of wood and fell. Johnny was then pulled